• protist
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    7 months ago

    Bed bug mating practices are probably up there too

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      7 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination

      Yea wth

      The process is detrimental to the female’s health. It creates an open wound which impairs the female until it heals, and is susceptible to infection. The injection of sperm and ejaculatory fluids into the hemocoel can also trigger an immune reaction in the female. Bed bugs, which reproduce solely by traumatic insemination, have evolved a pair of sperm-receptacles, known as the spermalege. It has been suggested that the spermalege reduces the direct damage to the female bed bug during traumatic insemination

      Yep I’m out before one of you furries makes a cartoon out of this.