Posted on 05/27/2022 8:19:59 PM PDT by algore
When a male cockroach wants to mate with a female cockroach very much, he will scoot his butt toward her, open his wings and offer her a homemade meal — sugars and fats squished out of his tergal gland. As the lovely lady nibbles, the male locks onto her with one penis while another penis delivers a sperm package.
If everything goes smoothly, a roach’s romp can last around 90 minutes. But increasingly, cockroach coitus is going really, weirdly wrong
Back in 1993, scientists working at North Carolina State University discovered a trait in the German cockroach, a species that inhabits every continent except Antarctica. Specifically, these new cockroaches seemed to have no affection for a form of sugar called glucose, which was strange because — as anyone who has ever battled against a cockroach infestation knows — cockroaches normally cannot get enough of the sweet stuff.
So, where did these new, health-conscious cockroaches come from?
It seems we created them by accident, after decades of trying to kill their ancestors with sweet powders and liquids laced with poison. The cockroaches that craved sweets ate the poison and died, while cockroaches less keen on glucose avoided the death traps and survived long enough to breed, thus passing that trait down to the next cockroach generation. In lab experiments, Dr. Wada-Katsumata and her colleagues showed that glucose-averse females are more skittish of males than wild-type cockroaches, which is what the researchers call the roaches without glucose aversion. However, they also found that glucose-averse males seem to compensate for this by more rapidly transitioning into sex after offering his gift.
“The glucose-averse females might spend, say, three seconds feeding on the male’s secretion,” said Coby Schal, distinguished professor of entomology at North Carolina State and an author of the study.
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Well, that’s very....interesting.
Yeah, maybe a bit TMI, but perhaps interesting from a cockroach perspective.
I will never think of a sugar daddy the same way ever
Well, I guess all the cockroaches reading this are enthralled.
German cockroach porn. Nein, danke
“ If everything goes smoothly, a roach’s romp can last around 90 minutes.”
How many human females wish they could be cockroach for a night ?
Wow....
I thought it was about woke libs..... /s
Not many. We can experience at least three in the space of a minute or so.
Too much is overkill.
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
I always assumed, you know, he just kind of flipped her over.
I swear… I absolutely have to break out Photoshop to somehow find a way to portray a cockroach reading this lewd and lascivious article. (To a cockroach, at least…)
I really, really trying not to picture each scene of this predicament in my mind’s eye.
Yeah. Like birds /s.
They have tiny little books, medical journals, and computers. You just have to catch them reading those.
You know…when I’m trying to attract a gal, that absolutely works for me every single time!
The whole subject is so weirdly absurd, arcane, and disgusting that it is somehow hilarious to me!
Hahahahaha
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