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How do worms mate?

Do they have a really tiny penis? How do they put it in? Is it asexual?

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  • 4 weeks ago

    How much detail do you want? There are many species of worm so which do you ask about? Lumbricus terrestris* (Common Earthworm) is hermaphrodite: It quite normally has both female and male sex organs and female and male gametes. Reproduction involves two worms, neither of which have a penis. Sperm from one worm is mixed with eggs from another and these are left together in a egg cocoon in the soil. There is no internal fertilisation. Their reproduction is sexual, not asexual.

    *If YA allowed formatting this species name would be in italics.

  • 4 weeks ago

    They produce a band of slime around their genitals and move close together, then their gametes swim through the slime and join.

  • Male worms have little tiny worms called worm whangers that they insert into the female worm's poon and ejaculate worm juice. 

  • Zirp
    Lv 4
    1 month ago

    ordinary rainworms are not asexual. Every individual has male and female parts. they bang eachother simultaneously

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