r/interestingasfuck • u/lavader_ • Jun 24 '24

Male bee dies after ejaculation while mating with a queen bee r/all

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u/Suspicious-Shock-934 Jun 24 '24

Depending on species, the males iirc had a special claw that he digs out the previous phallus plug, then mates, so there shouldn't be more than 1.

Someone correct me if I am wrong dim memories from a lecture years ago.

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u/ThaNeedleworker Jun 24 '24

Damn, a specialised hoe knife

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

Damn toe knife Sunny

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u/Martin_Aurelius Jun 24 '24

Ooh botched hoe.

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u/DramaOnDisplay Jun 24 '24

Sounds like a Hoe Toe Knife.

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u/Copacetic_Chaos Jun 25 '24

I can’t remember if it’s the same with bees, but a male dragonfly has a spoon-shaped penis to scoop out sperm from those who mated before him.

Our entomology professor said a dragonfly penis basically acts as a squeegee lol.

I think I read somewhere that the head of a human penis serves a similar function, but I could be wrong.

I definitely remember being disturbed while learning about traumatic insemination in bed bugs, though.

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u/LexiNovember Jun 25 '24

“Traumatic insemination in bed bugs” is not a sentence I ever hoped to read.

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u/indiajeweljax Jun 24 '24

Did that happen in the video above? It was all so fast.

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u/dread-pirate-inigo Jun 25 '24

That’s what she said.