Journal publishes doctoral candidate's findings on beetle promiscuity
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 12:41
in Psychology & Sociology
Elizabeth Droge-Young has long been fascinated by the mysteries and motivations behind sexual selection. But the promiscuity among females of one particular species—the red flour beetle—had her particularly stumped. These beetles would mate multiple times over the course of a day, sometimes multiple times an hour. Were they getting something more out of the mating process than the sperm they needed to reproduce? If so, what?