The Life Cycle of a SnailIt helps to know a little bit about the life cycle of a snail as that way you can work out ways to prevent them from laying eggs nearer to your garden plants. So just how do snails reproduce? They actually lay eggs and when you look closely at the photo below you can see two genuine eggs. (I do not have a photo of slug eggs sorry.)
They start out as an egg which is buried in the ground and left - after the prescribed amount of time these eggs hatch and out comes a VERY small and VERY hungry baby - along with hundreds of brothers and sisters. A mirror image of their parents. They have probably been laid quite near a supply of food and are immediately on the hunt for food as soon as they hatch. It is a good idea to have a clear area around your plants as that will deter it from becoming a snail nursery. When they reach adulthood they mate and produce eggs themselves - so it begins again. After the life cycle of a snail I need a beer. Coming?
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