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SL Letter of the Day: Women Fucking Men? Invertebrates Got There First!
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Male Xytiscus crab spiders have to tie their mates down to keep from getting eaten. Arthropod bondage.
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But still, they're no big whoop compared to Daphnia magna, and really, all the cladocerans -- the gals who reproduce asexually by parthenogenesis (until stress conditions demand that they produce sons with whom to breed sexually and produce ephippial eggs).
I thought this was the future of the human race, at least to the paranoid right?
I thought this was the future of the human race, at least to the paranoid right?
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Now I know why my mom wouldn't let me have a pet canary. To much to learn for a preteen boy! My mom made me mammalian!
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As an Entomology grad student I can tell you so many wonderful things about the crazy sex lives of insects. I'm sure you all know about the practice of 'traumatic insemination' practiced by a select few species of insect -most notably the bed bug- however, did you know that a species of bed bug found in parts of Africa one up's this and engages in male-male traumatic insemination in an effort to replace the sperm of Bed Bug 1 with that of Bed Bug 2.
And yes, females of many species of arthropods (spiders, mantids, etc) will complete their sexual escapades by consuming the male post coitus, however this typically only happens if she is in need of food at the time. So, it does not happen every time you see a pair mating, but it definitely happens often enough.
Okay, one more...Only female mosquitoes drink blood.
And yes, females of many species of arthropods (spiders, mantids, etc) will complete their sexual escapades by consuming the male post coitus, however this typically only happens if she is in need of food at the time. So, it does not happen every time you see a pair mating, but it definitely happens often enough.
Okay, one more...Only female mosquitoes drink blood.
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