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What is this photo about? It shows a bedbug but I don't know what it is doing.86.9.215.225 (talk) 06:28, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The POTD(Picture of the Day) description reads:

Traumatic insemination
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.

Smallman12q (talk) 11:26, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify: it is two bedbugs, having sex. The male bedbug just punched a hole in the female's exoskeleton, and is having sex with that hole. This is normal for bedbugs. DS (talk) 15:41, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]