9 Extreme Bug Mating Rituals

Welcome to the romantic, violent, treacherous, and murderous mating lives of bugs.

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Sources:
http://content.time.com/time/specials...

Mantis
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/lib...
http://entomologytoday.org/2013/12/22...
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/m...
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3546137?o...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...

Bee
https://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/maga...
http://insects.about.com/od/antsbeesw...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=333_13...
http://honeybee.drawwing.org/

Firefly
http://www.livescience.com/6717-firef...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/sci...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com...
http://intl-icb.oxfordjournals.org/co...  

Dung Beetle
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/disco...
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?ne...
-85147028/
http://insects.about.com/od/beetles/a...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
http://dungbeetleexpert.com.au/what-a...

Peacock spider
http://www.livescience.com/39052-peac...
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/nor...

Mayfly
http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker...
https://books.google.com/books?id=QEY...
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10...


Soapberry Bug
http://www.soapberrybug.org/
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1...
https://www.coursehero.com/file/p2atf...

Fruitfly
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Waterstrider
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/not...
http://scicurious.scientopia.org/2009...

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