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Slug (reproduction)

Limacodae

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Field Notes

Description:

Slugs (invertebrates) have a small remnant of a shell embedded in their bodies. They generally stay in moist places by day and emerge at night to feed. These images show how they reproduce. Slugs are hermaphrodite and they impregnate each other through this method and then retract their penises, laying eggs a couple of weeks later. Slugs are very small in Vermont.

Habitat:

Moist places.

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Comments (2)
doreen.chambers.14
Slugs are hermaphrodite and they impregnate each other through this method and then retract their penises, laying eggs a couple of weeks later. Slugs are very small in Vermont. I was so happy to find this. I had posted one last year and never thought I would find another, but I just stumbled upon it in my front yard.
The MnMs
Could you provide us with more description on the fertilization moment? what is the white ball in the middle?
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PublishedOctober 15, 2013

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