Lack of pheromone leads to male bed bugs stabbing each other to death with their penises
by James on Dec.18, 2009, under Science
Disgusting but true. Bed bugs have a pheromone that lets males know that they have, uh, “mounted” the wrong gender. Bed bugs, it seems reproduce via traumatic copulation, wherein the male uses his needle like penis to punch a whole into the females chest and then ejaculates into them. Suddenly, Alien seems less creepy.
Researchers were able to block the glad that produced this (why?) and found that males would then mount other males and proceed to stab them to death with there penises.
I can just see the lab now:
“Doctor, when we blocked up those glands, the males started to impale each other with their penises.”
“Hmmm, interesting, let’s run more tests, just to be sure.”
And people get up in arms when they test shampoo on dogs.
Finally, in the comments on the first article, this related comic was linked to. Try to not be drinking anything when you read it.
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