copulation

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Female black widow spiders eat males following copulation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

A praying mantis consumes her mate after copulation, termites suck blood out of wounded peers, and mosquitoes snack on larvae.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022

Snails also exhibit no outward gender identity until the moment of copulation.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2021

This "forced extra-pair copulation," as it's known, is a fairly rare strategy across birds as a whole.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2021

In the laboratory, male gypsy moths have attempted copulation with chips of wood, vermiculite, and other small, inanimate objects, so long as they were suitably impregnated with gyplure.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson