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This Female Insect Wields a Penislike Organ to Gather Sperm

Por: The New York Times Science January 11, 2023

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The penis has a variety of peculiar shapes and sizes: the corkscrewed shaft of a duck, the needlelike organ of a bedbug and the four-headed member of an echidna. No matter how strange they look, these phalluses all help males deliver sperm to fertilize the eggs of their female mates.But some flea-size insects that resemble bleached flies and feast on bat droppings in Brazilian caves reverse these reproductive roles. Female barklice in the... + full article



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