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Snail Reproduction:
Snails are hermaphrodite. After pairing, snails can preserve the spermatophores for a period of one year. For laying eggs, snails dig holes or use natural dug-outs (Stem base of plants). As soon as the hole of required depth is dug, snails start to carefully work up the walls of housing. The housing is made solid & soil is thrown out through intestines onto surface. Around 40 pearl-white, brilliant eggs (diameter of 4-7 mm) are laid in a set. After completion of laying, the hole is filled up. After breeding season, approximately 1/3 of snails die.
Snail Reproduction season and period:
March-June, sometimes second peak is also possible – during the onset of autumn.
Snail Pubescence:
12-18 months.
Courting rituals:
Urge towards mating can be determined by the behavior. Snail slowly creeps, as if it is in search of something, often stops & stays at one place for longer periods by slightly raising front portion of the body. If two such snails meet, they at once start mating process. Both of them stand opposite each other & take characteristic position, by touching the sections of sole & feeling each other’s tentacles. These movements stop after some time, snails fall and tightly hugging each other with sole & are motionless for 15-30 minutes. After rest period, once again the game resumes. Entire process lasts for about two hours, till the snail, which has reached height of excitation does not drive its dart into the body of partner that heightens the excitation of partner. After a small pause, copulation process takes place in which both the male & female snails play roles. Snails part ways only after exchange of spermatophores.
Snail Incubation:
3-4 weeks
Posterity:
Snails, identical to adult snails, emerge from eggs. Young snails have smooth transparent shell, in which only half a curl. After 8-10 days, young snails leave the nest and creep out onto the surface in search of food. Under favorable conditions, snails grow very quickly - within a month, they can become four times more than at birth. Out off all born snails, only 5 % attain puberty.
Snail advantage and hazard for humans:
In South & South-West Europe, snails are eaten. Meat of snails is highly nourishing. Protein in snail is one third time more than in a chicken egg. Snail is not harmful for agriculture. Snail can be an intermediate owner of parasitic broods, which are dangerous for domestic & commercial animals. |
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