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Bed bugs use a process called traumatic insemination to reproduce. The male breaks the female’s shell to inject sperm into a cavity called the hemocoel. It travels around the bed bug’s ‘bloodstream’ to the ovaries and fertilizes the eggs. The female will then leave to find another harborage and lay eggs for 6-8 weeks after mating just once.
For those who don’t know.
Evolutionary, what advantage could this possibly hold?
Meanwhile, mantises:
Him 🙏
Her 💆♂️🔪
I dont get it
It’s a violent process
Males stab the females with their genetalia (literally stab as there is no opening) and ejaculate into the cavity. Then hopefully it gets carried through the blood stream and ends with successful insemination.
