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The analogy with the plugs and sockets is so lame anyways.
They want to compare a plug and a socket but the analogy falls apart once one takes a moment to realise that the penis analogy, a plug, is a receiver for electricity.
Do eggcells suddenly travel up dudes dicks and deposit babies inside them?
The female uses her ovipositor and extracts a single egg cluster from her egg sac. She then shoves it into the sperm bath located in the posterior thorax of the subdued male. Once the ovicluster is fertilized she will choose to depart, letting the male live. Or she will decapitate the male. Or she will consume the male, in whole or in part.
Once fertilized the female then finds and subdues a suitable host. Using her ovipositor, she attaches the ovicluster to the host's underside.
The eggs soon hatch triggered by the warmth of the host. Dozens of larvae burrow into the host and consuming it from the inside out to fuel their own growth. Instinctively, the larvae avoid vital organs until no other edible parts remain.
Once the host is consumed, the larvae exfiltrate the host's remains in search for a nearby suitable place it can pupate, making its own cocoon from available plant matter and its own saliva.