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On today’s Fresh Air, how various insects mate: “Damsel flies have a type of scoop on their penis which they can use to drag out the sperm from a previous male and replace it with their own. It means that if [one male] is able to displace the sperm of another male, then the genes for being able to displace the genes of another male are going to be the ones that fertilize the female … So her offspring are going to be able to displace sperm.”

[pictured: a pair of flies mating on a leaf via Alex Wild]

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Tagged: biology science insects

Posted on August 15, 2011 via NPR Fresh Air with 76 notes ()

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  so weird…yet strangely interesting
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  grow…scoopers,...we can hardly expect monogamy from those insects. it’s always...
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42. highlycaffeinatedspice said: Informative and interesting yet disturbing.
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50. task said: sundancechannel.com/gre… Seems very relevant. (Isabella Rossellini pretends to be a bug, mating, in case you’re unfamiliar)
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