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Scolytids are also a master of this strategy
big beautiful female bark beetle on left, tiny sperm dispenser male on right, from https://ambrosiasymbiosis.org/ambrosia-beetles/genetics-and-sociality/ Female is normal beetle, male is just a sperm-bearing larval lump with weird head (Jordal et al 2002)
October 16, 2024 at 1:59 PM