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English: A male bedbug ( Cimex lectularius ) traumatically inseminates a female one

(Cimicids practice traumatic insemination. Although the female has a normal genital tract for laying eggs, the male of most species

never uses it, instead piercing the female's abdominal wall; the sperm then migrate through the female's paragenital system.)
Date 4 April 2009 (upload date)
Source http://www.pheromone.ekol.lu.se/Images/mating.jpg from http://www.pheromone.ekol.lu.se/proj2camilla.html
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Rickard Ignell , Swedish University of Agricultural

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4 April 2009