Comments on: Of Dragons and Damsels Not in Distress http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/11/28/of-dragons-and-damsels-not-in-distress/ A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 By: Jennifer Frazer http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/11/28/of-dragons-and-damsels-not-in-distress/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:44:11 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1992#comment-157 Oops! Yes. Silly WordPress. : ) Have fixed it.

]]> By: Oroboros http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/11/28/of-dragons-and-damsels-not-in-distress/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:53:33 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1992#comment-156 Hm, I think my comment hit the moderation filter. It was either naughty words or too many links :@

]]> By: Oroboros http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/11/28/of-dragons-and-damsels-not-in-distress/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:48:38 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1992#comment-155 A friend of mine thought her apartment building had bedbugs this summer. There’s a registry online that shows at roughly one-third of the buildings in the neighborhood have infestations. So I started doing some research to help her diagnose and eliminate if necessary. When I learned about traumatic insemination and described it she pouted that there’s kinky sex happening in my bed and it doesn’t involve me! Fortunately what she found turned out to be carpet beetles according to the identification program at Harvard.

I re-read this piece on Darwin, female promiscuity and sperm competition in honor of the Origins’ anniversary.

I’ve noticed that damselflies like having group sex sometimes too.

That video was very useful in explaining what goes on during mating, as I’d really wondered about the purpose of the heart shape myself.

I think that the first spider to use traumatic insemination was described recently and given the ominous name Harpactea sadistica.

I’ve learned too much about reproduction in the wild to ever be appropriate dinner company again.

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