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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How on earth did you come across this article??
What Dark Corner of the Internet spawned this???
Haven’t we heard enough about the Biden family’s sexual fetishes already?
This is fine… I just can’t read the regular news stuff anymore.
It’s pretty sad state of affairs when I would much rather be reading the cockroach pornography!
Lol
I’m getting tired of the ‘regular news’, too.
A lot of it is as silly as the cockroach story.
Whoa! And I thought I was the beast with Viagra.
They will inherit the earth because they are based cockroach b*dasses.
Humanity has no chance.
That was a good one. LOL!
I’m up here in New England behind enemy lines.
It’s dead quiet and 72°.
I am laying in my hammock in my backyard smoking my pipe, and I just heard the far-off chimes of the town clock tower strike midnight as the wind bustles through the leaves, and…there are no bugs.
None.
Everything else in the world sucks it seems, but this instant, this moment is not so bad.
“You know…when I’m trying to attract a gal, that absolutely works for me every single time!”
That’s sick! You’re supposed to walk up from behind and sniff her rear. Unless she’s a lot bigger than you, in which case you should growl and allow her to sniff yours.
It’s dead quiet and 72°.
I am laying in my hammock in my backyard smoking my pipe, and I just heard the far-off chimes of the town clock tower strike midnight as the wind bustles through the leaves, and…there are no bugs.
None.
Everything else in the world sucks it seems, but this instant, this moment is not so bad."
The quiet before the storm, someday you will miss the firefly's
Oh, my. A man who smokes a pipe.
Do you whistle, too? (It used to be common to hear a man whistling as he walked down the street; but it’s been so long since I heard that routinely that it was almost shocking when I recently did...)
Except for putting two fingers in my mouth to produce a real piercing shriek of a whistle, I have never been able to do it.
It’s a funny thing, because in the past I had heard someone mutter “Damn a man who whistles!” And I always thought it was an odd thing to say.
But I read that whistling on ships was frowned on by superstitious sailors back in the age of sail because it was thought to invite high winds and heavy seas!
My Great Grandfather used to say that a
‘Whistling woman and a crowing hen
Will never come to any good end.’
He didn’t like women crossing their legs, either.
I’d probably be very disappointing to him - if he’d lived past 1910 to meet me...
Not crossing their legs? Must have have been considered unseemly for women back in the day I guess. Probably were only allowed to cross them at the ankles or something...
Just as appealing as Muskrat Love.
cockroach pornography!
We be a buncha sick bastas.
I think that was the case.
But he was a boat captain, and hauled stuff up and down the Chesapeake. I never heard that he didn’t want anyone whistling on his boat - except women, of course...
It must Friday Night on FR...er, Saturday Morning!
This gave me a shiver tic. Ack that’s disgusting.
Brings to mind the 1997 movie, “MIMIC”. Roaches can evolve
rapidly. The reason the species has lasted for so long.
TWO (2) penises? Double your pleasure; double your fun!
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