2024-08-18

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Links: Interesting facts about fish and insect reproduction

Fish:

Fish Eggs Survive Journey through a Duck: New research suggests one way fish might spread to distant waters.

Strange Spawning: interesting reproductive fish facts exposed

Shark virgin births seen in two generations for the first time

The Laws of Attraction: Mangrove Killifish Style Mangrove killifish are the only known self-fertilising hermaphroditic vertebrates.

Insects:

The Mystery of Uruguay’s Ferocious, All-Female Cannibal Insects: The small-winged stick mantis is found throughout South America’s grasslands. But in Uruguay, the population is entirely female.

Single Green Female: Did One Praying Mantis Give Rise to an All-Female Species?

These Male Stick Insects Aren’t ‘Errors’ After All: Some female stick insects can reproduce without males—but they have a secret.

These bacteria trigger a sex change in wasps — scientists finally know how.

Twisted-wing parasites feel no pain: How female twisted-wing parasites endure the trauma of mating

He Clones, She Clones: Dad, mom ants as different species: A study of the insects called little fire ants may be as close as science gets to showing males and females as separate species.