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The Amorous Dragonfly
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Animal Sex: Lesson Two

Six Legged Sex and Violence*
by Dr. Sinister Craven
Professor Emeritus of Miskatonic University
The Tragic Drone
Bees have two sexes* and three castes: the fertile female (Queen), sterile female (Worker),
and fertile male (Drone).  The workers feed and take care of the queen and drones, for they
can't take care of themselves.  They need the workers to feed them and, in the case of the
drones, house and protect them.

The drone is cute and fuzzy, as many males are.  He has it good--but his lot will soon
change.  Before he knows it, the time comes for the mating flight.  The lucky drone who
mates with the queen doesn't live to boast of his conquest--he dies.

The mated queen and the rest of the drones fly back to their nest, where her majesty is well
treated.  Not so the drones.  The workers don't sting and kill them quickly--that would be
merciful.  Instead, they gang up on the drones and kick them out of the nest.  The poor
males, who don't even have stingers, are cast out into the cold cruel world for which they are
ill prepared.  They cannot feed or take care of themselves, so they are left as easy prey for
robber flies and other predators.  If they escape getting eaten, they soon starve to death.  
Poor drones.
The Ant Assassin
In one species of ant, after a female mates with a drone, she doesn't build a nest of her
own.  Instead she goes to a nest of a different specific species of ant, finds their queen, and
bites her head off.  She is then accepted as that colony*s new queen.  She lays her eggs,
and her offspring slowly take over.  One day, one of her daughters will mate with a drone,
and search for her own colony to conquer.
The Amorous Dragonfly
Like butterflies and some international travelers, dragonflies mate while in flight. The anxious
male fights off rival suitors who want to inseminate "his" female. Victorious, he grabs her with
his abdominal claspers for a little sex on the wing.  Sometimes (read often) he gets a trifle
over eager,  and pierces her head or body.

The male dragonfly does not stifle his urges just because the female happens to be
unwilling. Not even a mother who*s trying to fly and lay her eggs at the same time is immune
to his advances. The overanxious suitor will still grab her if he can.  Sometimes his attempts
to penetrate her while she*s laying her eggs on the water will drown the new mother.  Such
is the life of the dragonfly.
The Oral Mantis
The praying mantis has a rather gruesome and unusual form of  "oral sex."  The female
emits pheromones to attract males, and soon a poor dupe arrives to mate with her.  In the
middle of mating, the lady doesn't give him head, she chews off his head.  This gets rid of
his inhibitions and makes him a better lover--he actually goes faster.

Like many creatures, the female feels hungry afterward, so she finishes consuming her used
mate.  She then goes off, lays an egg case, and dies.  While the male black widow
sometimes gets away from an amorous encounter, the male praying mantis never gets
away.  And the female mantis always dies after a lay.

Six-legged sex is hot, huh?
*Modern biological science insists on cramming life forms into one of two sex boxes, in
spite of the evidence that there’s more.  
R.L.
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