Male Flour Beetles (IMAGE)

University of Exeter

Male Flour Beetles

Caption

Flour beetles exhibit a highly tactile form of courtship in which the male mounts the female and stimulates her, drumming his lower leg along her abdomen until she allows him to mate with her.

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Matthew Silk

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