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Day: August 23, 2013

Motherhood, snail style (Part 2)

Posted on 2013-08-232015-05-24 by Allison J. Gong

It has been almost a month since my big female whelk started laying her eggs, and the embryos seem to be developing nicely. The first time I witnessed this phenomenon I saw the egg capsules begin to turn black, and worried that the eggs inside were dead and decomposing. But the cool thing about Kelletia…

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