The way to do that is the bizarre nature of beetles with a penis longer than the body

This may be an easy question to be mistaken as the opening line of an insect-related joke: How to make a bird have a penis longer than its body mate with female bugs without hurting or breaking. ?

However, the answer may help improve the method of passing medical catheters in a safer way today.
Scientists studying the mating method of live ladybirds on star fruit trees have discovered many other features that are often extremely long help with a soft and curved head like the hook of this animal doing its work.

The image of the penis is longer than the body of the ladybug that lives on the star fruit tree.(Photo: Livescience).

If only through it, the ladybug's sexual activity is almost impossible.

The diagram shows that the female reproductive organ of the female beetle is like a spiral, so the male beetle's penis must wriggle through many rings in order to mate.

And somehow, the male bug can complete this journey without breaking the genitals.

In a new study published in Science Advances magazine, scientists at Kiel University (Germany) under the genital microscope microscope of operated lady beetles and try to bend this part to better understand how it works.

The team found that the very long genitals differed in rigidity in each segment.

The leg of this part is very hard but the more the head is soft, the more it can bend through many bends.

The bottom left picture is the female genital genital chart.The genitals of the male turtle set must pass through such a multistage spiral structure for mating.(Photo: Livescience).

The penis of ladybirds is one of many super long structures to serve important purposes in the insect world. Some types of insects have fallopian tubes or ultra-long noses, which help animals perform tasks that are hard to penetrate into thin structures without damaging them. The researchers suggest that the mechanism of action helps medical professionals overcome some of the challenges in the process of passing a medical catheter.

'Compare the structural correlations between the biological system of the beetle penis and the medical catheter in passing long and thin structures in narrow spaces, our results can provide some suggestions for further improvement of the current process of passing medical catheters , 'the authors write in the article.

Ladybug lives on star fruit tree.

According to the research team, the biggest drawback in the process of passing the medical catheter is the risk of complications due to many different factors such as the incorrect initial position.

Researchers say that the mechanism of live ladybirds on star fruit trees should be considered and investigated to have a clearer picture of their mechanism of action.

'Although there are limitations in changing the structure of medical catheters due to the complex and diverse use purpose, but the self-control system of the genitals of ladybirds on star fruit trees has potential applications. for this purpose ' , the research team proposed.