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A snail is both female and male. They are hermaphrodites.
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How do you tell apart snails?
If you are keeping pet snails that have similar markings and cannot tell them apart, use different coloured paints (not water-based) or nail varnish to put a small dot of colour on the shell to help with identification. If the question meant "how do you tell male and female snails apart?", then the answer is that there are no male or female snails. Snails are hermaphrodites (have characteristics of both sexes) and so any two snails can reproduce.
Do snails have to have a male to have babies?
There is no such thing as a male snail. Or a female snail for that matter.All snails are hermaphrodites. That means they have both sexual organs. Two snails mating will both sperm and lay the eggs.
How do you know if a snail is male or female?
You simply do not. There are no such thing as male and female snails.All snails are hermaphrodites.That means all snails have both male and female reproductive organs. They still need to mate with another snail in order to produce and lay eggs.Some amateur gardener groups will try to say that snails with a brown-striped shell are girls whereas white stripes are boys. This is false - they are actually two completely different species. Therefore "snail breeders" breeding these two are creating a hybrid or mixed-species.So the answer to your question is that you can not tell if a snail is male or female, because snails do not have male/female genders. They are all hermaphrodites.
Why are snails both male and female?
snails are both males and females because they have a female uterus and oviduct and ovaries and they also have male testis and spermduct. That is the only thing i can really tell you. We will prolly never know exactly why they are this way. This is the way that God made them and we should just leave it at that. Snails have both male and female organs so they are able to reproduce without a mate. This may seem like a pointless answer but there is a difference in reproducing and creating genetic diversity. Genetic diversity is achieved when two snails mate together. Now how which one "plays" male and which one is female when they do breed is quite thought provoking.
How do garden snails mate?
Snails reproduce the same thing almost everything else does - they mate and lay eggs. Some snails are hermaphrodites, though (have both male and female sexual organs in the same individual), which means that two snails can fertilize each-other.
How can you tell between a female and male butterfly?
One way is that a male has two small dots on their bottom wing, while a female doesn't.
How do you tell if snails are girls or boys?
Well I have heard two answers,If it has hairsIf it has more legs on its last segment, then it's a girl (you have to get it out of the shell pretty far)Actually that is wrong. Girl hermit crabs have gonopores. If you turn the hermit crab upside down (PLEASE BE CAREFUL) and it goes out kind of far (DON"T PULL IT) and if it has to little dots on each side, it is a girl.
Do female mystery snails always lay eggs?
Sort of: snails have both male and female sex parts, so when two snails mate, either or maybe even both can lay eggs. snails can mate with anyone, even their own children or brothers/sisters. Mine giant African land snail laid about 300 eggs, then died this morning.
How can you determine if your frog is a male or female?
by checking the underside a good way to tell is by using the two forms of bellybuttons innie would be female outie would be male
Monarch butterfly boy or girl?
You can tell the difference between a male and female Monarch butterfly by examining their wings. The male Monarch butterfly has two black spots on its wings while the female does not. The male also has thinner vein lines through its wings than the female.
How do you do to know that a snail is male or female?
Slugs and snails are hermaphrodites with both male and female sexual organs. When they mate, each snail will fertilise the other, and each snail will then produce offpsring. If it's a water snail, however, there is a difference between the two genders.
Can two tarantulas live together?
Two tarantulas can live together if they are the same sex. After mating the female will usually kill the male and often this fight will end with both spiders being dead. It is very hard to tell a female tarantula from a male.
