On 24/08/2012 12:47, Jake wrote:
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:13:16 +0100, Moonraker
wrote:

Came across 2 large fat slugs this morning, they were joined head to
head and tail to tail, between them was a large dollop of jelly type
substance. I assumed they were trying to add to the already over
population of slugs in my garden, am I right? anyway a little salt cured
them!

Coitus interrupticus! You could at least have let them finish

What a lot of people don't know is that whilst slugs are
hermaphrodites, it is quite common for a slug to mate as a male only
once. This is because the male bit often gets so tangled up during the
twisting mating ritual that the only way to separate for the
after-cigarette is to chew the willy off. Thereafter the slug can only
mate as a female.

I suppose that's why most slug eggs result from self fertilisation as
it's safer.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.

Too much information Jake.

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