The Sex Lives of Bugs: How Bees, Spiders, Worms, Mites, and Other Insects Get it On

The bird lice and the bees.

How do bugs have sex? Insect conservationist and artist Karyn Light-Gibson, author of Bug Life and Rad Bugs, is back with science-backed facts and illustrations to show you how seriously weird invertebrate reproduction can be. Sometimes humans can very easily tell if two invertebrates are having sex since they appear in a recognizable sex position, while others look like their insides are all on the outside of their body that are all covered in a thick slime. Many types of bugs and insects are inherently queer, having never been indoctrinated by human media sex and gender binaries.

• Male bedbugs prefer to chew a hole in the side of the female and insert their sperm in the newly made hole
• Some arachnids have 13 hr mating rituals, in which no penetration occurs, just a spermatophore that the female stands over and absorbs
• Some female dragonflies pretend to be dead in order to avoid males 
• Some cockroaches are extremely loving mothers who also care for their siblings' kids
• Leopard slugs have both female & male genitalia. They hang upside down on a string of slime and impregnate each other 
• Mantises and black widows don't always eat their mate—in fact it is infrequent 

There are millions of species of insects on the planet, many of them endangered despite all this wild procreation, and it makes sense that their sex lives, relationship habits, and parenting styles would be so varied. This fun and endlessly fascinating book is written for adults, but kids sneaking a look will not be disappointed. After reading this book, we promise that you will never see the world the same way again.