Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises

[Ian David]

Male bedbugs will schtup anything, and when they do, their stabby little penises can do great damage to one another. Female bedbugs have some "down there" armor that absorbs the punishing blows of the bedbug's love-spear, but males lack this protection. A pheromone discovered by a Swedish researcher can cause male bedbugs to kill each other with their penises through uncontrolled shagging:

According to lead researcher Camilla Ryne, bedbugs are notoriously undiscerning about who they mount, and are accustomed to stab their penis straight into another male's abdomen...

Males with blocked glands were mounted as often as other males, but for longer and suffered more wounds.

"This is the first time I've seen an alarm pheromone used as a sexual one," New Scientist quoted Ryne as saying.



More:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/17/bug-powder-causes-ma.html

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/snipeyhead/status/6800623748


"That was great, but now my abdomen hurts."

[hlthe2b]

1. Cautionary tale for males of all stripes....

:evilgrin:

[Ghost Dog]

6. Yeah. Tell females about it.

Sheesh.

[asdjrocky]

2. We should have a short story contest based on this story.

There are just too many places to go with this.

[AlienGirl]

20. "The Screwfly Solution" comes to mind. Tiptree remains #1.

[trackfan]

3. Maybe what we thought was bedbugs biting wasn't biting after all.

[reggie the dog]

15. on no

I been fucked by a bug!

[AndyA]

4. Somewhere, somehow...there must be a connection with Tom DeLay in this.

Did he stab other males in Congress in the abdomen with his Love Spear to make them do what he wanted them to do?

The mental image is frightening!

[Laelth]

5. I feel guilty about laughing, but this is really funny.

It kinda sucks to be male. Testosterone is an evil master.

:dem:

-Laelth

[AnneD]

7. But they die with a smile on their little faces......

I know some guys that would love to go that way:evilgrin:

[hootinholler]

13. He came and he went

That's how I want my epitaph to read.

-Hoot

[AnneD]

16. I had a bio professor in College that wanted to die making love...

he wanted to go on the upstroke so he got a freebie going down.:fistbump:

Loved that guy.

[xultar]

8. Let's try sprinkling that shit on the senate.

[kestrel91316]

9. You owe me a new keyboard. The coffee with milk just ruint it.

[tabatha]

10. Lieberman's bed.

[Laelth]

11. LOL. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[AnneD]

18. Be sure to spread...

the viagra first, then the bug powder. The Congress is in bed with the Pharm, WS, etc. We can kill 2 birds with one stone.

[AwakeAtLast]

19. That is TOO perfect!

:rofl:

[roguevalley]

21. the rest of this thread is brilliant. :)

[jmondine]

12. Similar to the effect Obama's election had on the GOP

[hootinholler]

14. How long before some fundie quotes this a proof of being able to control teh gay? n/t

[Orsino]

17. Hell, Internet forums do that. n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

22. Bug viagara gone amok.... who knew? n/t