your average entomology textbook
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 18 Feb 2025 17:32
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massive_bereavement@fedia.io on 18 Feb 2025 18:26 next collapse

More horrifying than fish? Sir I certainly doubt so.

BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one on 18 Feb 2025 18:34 next collapse

There is a species of slug (Limax maximus) that fuck by sword fighting each other using their barbed slug cocks, all while hanging from a singular strand of mucus where death below awaits them. Often after fucking, one of them chews the dick off the other in order to get unstuck because either one or both penises have succeeded in stabbing the other to inject their semen.

Many species of mantis and arachnids (Dolomedes tenebrosus) have the enormous females eat the males alive while they are still copulating.

There is also a species of

kamenlady@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2025 19:10 collapse

There is also a species of

We are all waiting

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qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website on 18 Feb 2025 22:08 collapse

Sounds like he was a mantis and was posting while copulating.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev on 18 Feb 2025 18:42 collapse

Thatā€™s not where your sex hole is? It is now.

I donā€™t need two pedipalps for mating; Iā€™ll snap one off so I can move better.

massive_bereavement@fedia.io on 18 Feb 2025 19:14 collapse

I see your arachnid mutilation sex and raise it with my "your gonads? Now MY gonads" anglerfish "sex".

ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml on 18 Feb 2025 19:08 collapse

Laura Palmerā€™s about to tell this guy that sheā€™ll see him again in 25 years.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev on 18 Feb 2025 22:54 collapse

Wow, canā€™t unsee Agent Cooper now.

Damn fine bug sex.