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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Look up "anglerfish reproduction". The males are tiny and permanently fuse themselves to a female, basically becoming a parasite of balls.

Wikipedia:

When a male finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male becomes dependent on the female host for survival by receiving nutrients via their shared circulatory system, and provides sperm to the female in return.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Honey is great, but probably my favorite most interesting bug byproduct is shellac.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

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