The Genital Weaponry Of Beetles

Ladies, be glad you are not seed beetles:

“Male seed beetles have spectacularly harmful penises covered in sharp spikes. These help the male’s chances of fertilizing the eggs by providing an anchor, but can also pierce the female during sex, causing injury.

For seed beetles – a group of insects consisting of many species that infest beans or seeds – the battle of the sexes is not a psychological game played out in the home, it’s a deadly serious evolutionary arms race, according to a new study…”

Sex wars fought with spiky genitals [COSMOS Magazine] : Scribal Terror