{"id":177399,"date":"2021-02-13T02:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cockroaches-nibble-each-others-wings-after-sex-study\/"},"modified":"2021-02-13T02:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:30:14","slug":"cockroaches-nibble-each-others-wings-after-sex-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cockroaches-nibble-each-others-wings-after-sex-study\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cockroaches nibble each other’s wings after sex: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cockroaches nibble each other’s wings after sex: study<\/strong>”
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Like an entomological Armie Hammer? <\/p>\n

They say cockroaches will inherit the earth. However, it\u2019s a wonder they reproduce at all: Japanese researchers revealed that these household pests have a penchant for biting their mate\u2019s wings while getting jiggy with it. <\/p>\n

\u201cWithin mating pairs of a wood\u2010feeding cockroach, males and females eat the mate\u2019s wings . . . which is the first \u2018mutual\u2019 case in these behaviors,\u201d said Haruka Osaki and\u00a0Eiiti Kasuya<\/a> from Kyushu University\u2019s Department of Biology. They authored the kinky study, which was published in the science journal Ethology. <\/a><\/p>\n

Osaki first stumbled upon the consensual cannibalism while collecting the wood-eating roaches \u2014 which are dark and glossy and grow up to an inch long \u2014 in the wild as a biology student. She noticed that their wings looked like they may have been \u201cchewed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to decipher the bizarre bug bites, the research gathered young adult cockroaches from Yona Field in Okinawa, Japan, and put them in lab containers, creating 24 couples. She then videotaped their behavior over four days. <\/p>\n

Osaki found that half of the pairs engaged in wing-eating. Specifically, one roach would mount its mate and start chewing on their flying app<\/a>endages before they would switch positions so the other could have a nibble.<\/p>\n

And while some of the munched-on bugs would shudder violently, prompting their paramour to take a break from their ghoulish meal, a majority didn\u2019t seem to mind having their wings clipped. <\/p>\n

This makes the species the first-known practitioners of mutual sexual cannibalism, which differs from most iterations in which the dominant partner kills the other. Perhaps the most infamous example of intraspecies snacking is female praying mantises<\/a> devouring their hubby\u2019s head mid-coitus in order to increase the potential for offspring. <\/p>\n

Scientists haven\u2019t nailed down why exactly cockroaches de-wing each other during sex. However, unlike mantises, these kitchen pillagers likely don\u2019t gnaw for sustenance \u2014 as the sexperiment\u2019s subjects engaged in the practice even when \u201csufficient food was provided,\u201d per the study. <\/p>\n

Researchers postulate that wing-removal helps prevent the adults from being encumbered by unnecessary appendages, especially as the wings are magnets for mites and mold. <\/p>\n

Not to mention that losing their wings frees up the monogamous species to invest more in caring for their progeny. <\/p>\n

It would appear that marriage literally keeps them grounded.<\/p>\n

\u201cMutual wing\u2010eating may be an example of true cooperation and may help explain some interactions between females and males from a new viewpoint,\u201d said Osaki of the findings.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Cockroaches nibble each other’s wings after sex: study” Like an entomological Armie Hammer? They say cockroaches will inherit the earth. However, it\u2019s a wonder they reproduce at all: Japanese researchers revealed that these household pests have a penchant for biting their mate\u2019s wings while getting jiggy with it. \u201cWithin mating pairs of a wood\u2010feeding cockroach,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cockroaches-mating-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[92929,64690,9724],"class_list":["post-177399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-12-21","tag-insects","tag-study-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}