A closer look
Bedbugs mate through an incredibly violent process literally called traumatic insemination, where the male completely ignores the female's reproductive tract and instead violently stabs her in the abdomen with his hypodermic genitalia. He directly injects his sperm into her body cavity, where it then has to travel through her hemolymph blood fluid to reach her ovaries. The females have had to evolve a specialized secondary organ just to survive this aggressive puncture wound without bleeding to death or getting massive infections. If you ever needed another reason to passionately hate bedbugs, just know that their entire reproductive strategy is essentially a violent biological stabbing. It makes human dating apps look like an absolute paradise of civility and romance in comparison. These pests do not just ruin our sleep and infest our mattresses, they are fundamentally awful to each other on a structural level
