Trauma in a bee: Entomologists shed light on bizarre mating mechanisms of native twisted-winged parasites
Friday, April 29, 2016 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
Twisted-winged parasites of the species Stylops ovinae reproduce using so-called traumatic insemination. To inseminate the eggs, the males injure the endoparasitic females with their hook-shaped penis and inject the seminal fluid directly into their body cavity.