For bedbugs, food and sex are intrinsically linked; bedbugs cannot mate unless they've just had a blood meal. They also have a super-weird way of having sex: traumatic insemination.
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Monsters Inside Me: Bedbugs, Food and Sex
For bedbugs, food and sex are intrinsically linked; bedbugs cannot mate unless they've just had a blood meal. They also have a super-weird way of having sex: traumatic insemination.
Added: Jul 15, 2009
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Runtime: 02:02
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