![The love dart is a small needle hidden in snail internal sacs until copulation when it stabs the other snail to mate by injecting hormones. It can sometimes kill them, but it The love dart is a small needle hidden in snail internal sacs until copulation when it stabs the other snail to mate by injecting hormones. It can sometimes kill them, but it](https://i.redd.it/r7ghlinemvv61.jpg)
The love dart is a small needle hidden in snail internal sacs until copulation when it stabs the other snail to mate by injecting hormones. It can sometimes kill them, but it
![Animal Planet on Instagram: “Garden Snail are pretty romantic. During reproduction, they will insert a “love dart” into each … | Snail, Snails in garden, Pet snails Animal Planet on Instagram: “Garden Snail are pretty romantic. During reproduction, they will insert a “love dart” into each … | Snail, Snails in garden, Pet snails](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/87/ec/34/87ec3459ebd64a5934d54605e01461dc.jpg)
Animal Planet on Instagram: “Garden Snail are pretty romantic. During reproduction, they will insert a “love dart” into each … | Snail, Snails in garden, Pet snails
![depths of wikipedia on Twitter: "hypothetically if we were the last organisms on earth and also we were snails would you fire a love dart at me https://t.co/oshPtSBDJu" / Twitter depths of wikipedia on Twitter: "hypothetically if we were the last organisms on earth and also we were snails would you fire a love dart at me https://t.co/oshPtSBDJu" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FodmNUpXED8DU7_.png)
depths of wikipedia on Twitter: "hypothetically if we were the last organisms on earth and also we were snails would you fire a love dart at me https://t.co/oshPtSBDJu" / Twitter
![Garden Snails - copulation - parting showing remains of love dart (gypsobelum) (Helix aspersa / cornu aspersum) - SuperStock Garden Snails - copulation - parting showing remains of love dart (gypsobelum) (Helix aspersa / cornu aspersum) - SuperStock](https://cdn.superstock.com/4220/Comp/4220-20071950.webp)
Garden Snails - copulation - parting showing remains of love dart (gypsobelum) (Helix aspersa / cornu aspersum) - SuperStock
![The direct cost of traumatic secretion transfer in hermaphroditic land snails: individuals stabbed with a love dart decrease lifetime fecundity | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The direct cost of traumatic secretion transfer in hermaphroditic land snails: individuals stabbed with a love dart decrease lifetime fecundity | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/dd9a2b01-6b25-4a52-982d-c477bdb64d13/rspb20143063f01.jpg)