Subject: Cute picture
Geographic location of the bug: westchester county new york
Date: 09/17/2018
Time: 10:20 AM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: I’ve never seen this before and although I have extremely limited affection for slugs I had to take a picture
How you want your letter signed: Don Erwin
Dear Don,
Your image of mating Slugs is quite stunning. If you would like to read more about hermaphroditic mating Slugs, the Wildlife Kate blog has a nice posting that states: “I returned a little later to see just one slug…. and no sign of the jelly, which I had presumed was some kind of slime in which the eggs were fertilised. I was wrong! On doing a little research, I discovered that this blob of jelly was in fact two slug penises, entwined! Slugs are hermaphrodite and they impregnate each other through this method and then retract their penises, laying eggs a couple of weeks later.”