spoiler alert: it’s very similar to how bed bugs mate, although bat bugs (male AND female) have developed a false organ to block all of the violent, stabby sex. ah, evolution… nprfreshair: Science writer Amy Stewart, on bat bugs: “They will wander and find you. And also, they have this violent, weird mating method. So even though I was trying not to be too hard on bugs for what they do to one another, I was rather appalled at the ways in which bat bugs mate.”

spoiler alert: it’s very similar to how bed bugs mate, although bat bugs (male AND female) have developed a false organ to block all of the violent, stabby sex. ah, evolution…

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Science writer Amy Stewart, on bat bugs: “They will wander and find you. And also, they have this violent, weird mating method. So even though I was trying not to be too hard on bugs for what they do to one another, I was rather appalled at the ways in which bat bugs mate.”

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