Squiffy
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Oh wow! I'm sorry for the loss. She sounds beautiful!
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Not necessarily. I had a group of them once and they flat did not lay any eggs for nearly a year. They mated, they mated again, and again and behaved as normal but did not lay so much as one egg. They had plenty of places to lay too, so it wasn't that they lacked opportunity.
Females can also hold onto male sperm for prolonged periods of time, and people have purchased what they think are virgin females only to have them produce viable eggs months later. And they will also lay eggs that are infertile, if they don't have mates.
Like any animal, they're variable. At one point this summer, I had snails laying at least once a week. Now they have slowed down considerably, but they have not stopped. Just doing it less often. Won't surprise me if they take a break over winter, though I hope they will continue.