Garden snails

Garden snails have traits associated with two previous entries on this list, like the flatworm they are hermaphroditic and like our previous entry their mating ritual sounds like the police should be called. However, unlike the bedbugs, there is no clear winner as in this mating ritual…..they BOTH get stabbed.

Snails have an extremely sharp reproductive organ, affectionately known as a ‘love dart’, located on their necks. The neck is where is fired from and the neck is where they get stabbed in. Once the dart is jabbed into the others neck it provides the sperm to fertilize the other’s eggs.

If for some bizarre reason you think a bit of neck stabbing is harmless, you’ll be shocked to learn then that it can be quite fatal. To many neck stabbing can cause a reduction in fertility and eventual death. Who would have thought?