Content Warning: Discussions about sexual acts and copulation rituals in bees, including some graphic "traumatic mating events." 🙂 "It can’t always be roses." – Nicole Brown, 2024
THIS IS OUR LAST EPISODE OF THE SEASON! We’re taking a winter break, and we’ll be back at the end of March with a new slate of episodes. Thanks for tagging along with us this year.
Wasp orgy videos [Source 3]: https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12712
Nicole’s Sources:
- Buchmann, S. 2023. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees. Island Press.
- Marshall, L., Alcock, J. 1981. The evolution of the mating system of the Carpenter bee Xylocopa varipuncta. Journal of Zoology.
- Ablard, K. 2006. Local Mate Competition, and Mechanisms, Functions and Fitness Consequences of Courtship and Mating Behaviour in the Parasitoid Wasp Ooencyrtus kuvanae (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Ph.D. Dissertation Simon Fraser University.
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