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Behind the
Recently, Dr. Bang Do from Hubei University, China and his colleagues published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology their discoveries that help explain why female spi…
Mating
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Male flies produce sex stimulants to attract female flies
Scientists have discovered an aromatic substance because the male bodies of the fruit fly are sexually offensive to females.
Biology
Dead because of noise when the rain cloud
Flies often waved their wings continuously and strongly when mating. To explore the risk of flies doing that, 'Stefan Greif, a scientist from the Max Planck Institute of…
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The unique gift of fireflies
In addition to glowing to seduce mates, male fireflies also offer a unique
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Why mantis female sexual cannibalism?
The cannibalism after mating is common in mantis and some other animals such as spiders, scorpions, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles. This is a problem that evolutionary…
Biology
Love 'madness' lover is about to die
According to researcher Walter Tschinkel at Florida State University (USA),
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'Hunger' sex, fruit flies turn to self-stimulation with alcohol
According to research published in the journal Science, scientists say that alcohol also stimulates the fruit's brain similarly to when it is satisfied with desire. The…
Biology
The way to use 'precious' spider's escape is extremely toxic
In some spiders, when the males have sex for the first time and sometimes for the last time, they often apply the defensive technique:
Biology
Spider eating mates is a reason
The habit of re-mate your partner right after satisfying the love of the female spider is determined to be a necessary action to produce a healthy descendant.
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'Change gifts for sex' in insects
The male Nursery-Web spider (belonging to the family Pisaura mirabilis) prepares silk-wrapped gifts carefully to give the spider what they like. Most of the gifts contai…
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Spider 'sniffs' to identify 'safe' partner
New research shows that male spiders can identify a 'safe' mate by sniffing spider silk. According to the BBC news agency, males may have used this skill to avoid starvi…
Biology
'Incest' insects
Scientists have discovered that cotton mealybug (Icerya purchasi) has a very special sex life related to bloodline. Females are able to fertilize their eggs without mati…
Biology
How does the brown stink flatter white flirtatious 'mate'?
By day-to-day monitoring, scientists at Vinh University were able to describe in detail the rather interesting flirtatious behavior of white-spotted stink bug (Andrallus…
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Trees also behave like people
New Scientist magazine reports that some plants can choose mates to avoid mating
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Male crickets use scent to seduce
Scientists at the Center for Evolutionary Medicine Research at the University of Western Australia say that male crickets know how to use scent to seduce