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Bedbugs are a particularly interesting species, in that they practice traumatic insemination[0]. The male, in order to overcome female resistance, rips through
by scarmig 5y ago
Bedbugs are a particularly interesting species, in that they practice traumatic insemination[0]. The male, in order to overcome female resistance, rips through her abdomen to deposit his sperm. Large, confined bedbug colonies often go extinct for this reason: all the females end up dead from repeated traumatic insemination.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination
- samatman 5y agoYep. Bedbugs are one of those species where I would have no objection at all to gene-driving them into oblivion.