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> In certain bee species, the male’s body literally explodes after copulation, due to a sudden increase in intra-abdominal pressure, which embeds part of the no
by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
> In certain bee species, the male’s body literally explodes after copulation, due to a sudden increase in intra-abdominal pressure, which embeds part of the now-deceased male’s body into the female’s genital tract, preventing other males from copulating with the just-fertilized female.
Wrong; other males can still mate with the female. The whole point is for her to mate with multiple males. I wonder what else in this story is incorrect
- not2b 3y agoIt says "in certain bee species". Are you an expert in the field? You seem very confident here that this doesn't apply to any bee species.
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- CoastalCoder 3y agoA citation might help your argument.
- scarmig 3y agoSince I was curious too, I dug up this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847503/#:~:text=Immediately https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847503/#:~:tex... Multiple males do mate with the queen, with the everted endophallus acting as a signal to other males and perhaps offering protection from the queen's stinger. Technical term seems to be "mating sign," and males prefer queens with a mating sign.
- arp242 3y agoBut there are 20,000 bee species, many of which are actually solitary. That just looks at the honey bee.
- SoftTalker 3y agoI can think of worse ways to die than a fatal orgasm.