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

Invertebrate sex can be seriously weird. From traumatic insemination to monogamy, they run the gamut of what sex is. 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. What comes after sex is just as all over the place. Some are loving parents. Some eat their young. And some care for their young into adulthood. It is not surprising given how many species there are that their sex lives and parenting styles would be so varied. You don’t have to love bugs to be interested in bug sex. It will definitely make you look at them differently, one way or another.