April 2014 - Post a animal game -simple - Win 15m

[Eviesee645]

Xylocopa Virginica
AKA The Carpenter Bee



If you see one of these guys hovering outside a bench or wall, he's holding that spot for a female and hoping she'll repay the favor by having sex with him.  

[Eviesee645]

Sagebomb

Eviesee645

XD yes traumatic insemination I would say is second best in insect sex only to the endophallus of bees (but I'm a little biased and love bees most of all)

Yeah they're not so hard to avoid if you know you've been exposed, but pretty easy to get if you're not paying attention. Honestly I got really lucky because I found one of the bed bugs before the infestation had gotten too too bad

One of my fave penises of the animal world is



The detachable free swimming p***s of the agronaut.

Its not weird for me to have fave peniis right? Since my degree is in behavioural ecology....which is basically another way of saying life strategys of animals...which is a nice way of saying I have a degree in animal sex XD.

As a world travelling...and one always travelling on a tight budget its one thing that I try and stay pretty alert for.

Hahaha I think it's AWESOME that you have a favorite p***s! Animal sex is pretty awesome, it was definitely one of the most interesting parts of entomology.  

[Icklekins]

Well, I missed yesterday and I will likely miss tomorrow and Sunday as well.

Delphinus delphis

 

[Eviesee645]

Calopteryx dimidiata

The Sparkling Jewelwing Damselfly


Also fun fact: Damselflies mate in a heart shape (and have spoon penises to scoop out the semen from any other males and ensure their genes are the ones passed on)

 

[Eviesee645]

For today, my favorite insect of all:
Apis Mellifera, the European Honey Bee


As briefly referenced earlier, the male has an endophallus meaning that he must turn his abdomen inside out, killing himself in order to mate. Also the males only have one set of chromosomes, but the females have two.  

[Eviesee645]

Sagebomb

Eviesee645

, but the females have two.

Holy big pic batman. You may want to resize XD...I guess you intended to but forgot to change the limit XD.

Whoops! stressed yeahhh that was the point of using TinyPic but I guess I should have paid more attention  

[Eviesee645]

Oncopeltus faciatus, the Large Milkweed Bug



Once again, these aren't just any Large Milkweed Bugs in the picture, they're MY large Milkweed bugs, Milkeisha and Lactara, also they had just laid some eggs.  

[Eviesee645]

Sagebomb

Eviesee645

Sagebomb

Eviesee645

, but the females have two.

Holy big pic batman. You may want to resize XD...I guess you intended to but forgot to change the limit XD.

Whoops! stressed yeahhh that was the point of using TinyPic but I guess I should have paid more attention

XD tis all good.

here's the bee picture I should have used:



That's Queen Latifah

Also this is my beekeeping class: