>>27435940Well, there's that wonderful repository of potentially dubious information, wikipedia to answer that question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_reproductive_systemOf bees (from a different site):
For more information: When a virgin queen flies to a site where thousands of male honey bees may be waiting, she mates with several males in flight. A male drone will mount the queen and insert his endophallus, ejaculating semen. After ejaculation, a male honey bee pulls away from the queen, though his endophallus is ripped from his body, remaining attached to the newly fertilized queen.
Of moths (also a different site):
The male moth then mounts the female to mate. Mating is often very brief. While most moths and butterflies must mate to produce offspring, some European bagworm moths use a process of parthenogenesis to reproduce. In parthernogenisis, caterpillars hatch from unfertilized eggs.
Insect copulation is quite an interesting little thing to research, because some of the shit that happens is utter insanity. (Looks like both groups use endophalluses, by the way.)
So make of that what you will.
