Incidentally, my favourite Wikipedia article is the one about the Drone Bee and his dick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)#Mating_and_the_drone_reprod

Incidentally, my favourite Wikipedia article is the one about the Drone Bee and his dick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)#Mating_and_the_drone_reproductive_organ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)#Mating_and_the_dro... "Mating between a single drone and the queen lasts less than 5 seconds, and it is often completed within 1–2 seconds. Mating occurs mid-flight, and 10–40 m above ground. Since the queen mates with 5– 19 drones, and drones die after mating, each drone must make the most of his single shot. The drone makes first contact from above the queen, his thorax above her abdomen, straddling her. He then grasps her with all six legs, and everts the endophallus into her opened sting chamber. If the queen’s sting chamber is not fully opened, mating is unsuccessful, so some males that mount the queen do not transfer semen. Once the endophallus has been everted, the drone is paralyzed, flipping backwards as he ejaculates. The process of ejaculation is explosive—semen is blasted through the queen’s sting chamber and into the oviduct. The process is sometimes audible to the human ear, akin to a "popping" sound. The ejaculation is so powerful that it ruptures the endophallus, disconnecting the drone from the queen."