A male
bedbug (Cimex lectularius) traumatically inseminates a female bedbug. The female's ventral
carapace is visibly cracked around the point of insemination. Bedbugs
reproduce solely by this process, in which the male pierces the female's
abdomen with his
penis and injects his
sperm through the wound.Photo: Rickard Ignell,
SLU
A male
bedbug (Cimex lectularius) traumatically inseminates a female bedbug. The female's ventral
carapace is visibly cracked around the point of insemination. Bedbugs
reproduce solely by this process, in which the male pierces the female's
abdomen with his
penis and injects his
sperm through the wound.Photo: Rickard Ignell,
SLU