Thursday, 29 May 2008
♥ how do worms reproduce
in the midst of a very random conversation, it suddenly occurred to me that worms have no sexual organs. so how do they mate? ...i began to google it.
here's a little trivia
"It seems that worms are, in fact, hermaphrodites. They possess both male and female sexual organs. On warm, moist spring and summer nights, you can often seen hundreds of mating worms coming up out of their burrows. Once they have mated, the girdle like ring around the front of an earthworm called the clitellum slides along the worm's body, picking up fertilized eggs. When it finally falls off the worm into the soil, it forms a well protected nest or egg case within which the embryo worms develop."
For a video of a hatching worm embryo, visit the worm world.
and you're so not gonna guess this, but a worm has FIVE hearts! worms are now wayyyyy cooler than i thought.
here's a little trivia
"It seems that worms are, in fact, hermaphrodites. They possess both male and female sexual organs. On warm, moist spring and summer nights, you can often seen hundreds of mating worms coming up out of their burrows. Once they have mated, the girdle like ring around the front of an earthworm called the clitellum slides along the worm's body, picking up fertilized eggs. When it finally falls off the worm into the soil, it forms a well protected nest or egg case within which the embryo worms develop."
For a video of a hatching worm embryo, visit the worm world.
and you're so not gonna guess this, but a worm has FIVE hearts! worms are now wayyyyy cooler than i thought.
♥ let that be enough
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