Bean weevils get a kick out of mates
By Susan Milius
The battle of the sexes turns out to be a literal description of the domestic life of the bean weevil, say British researchers.
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These insects, Callosobruchus maculatus, breed in stored grain throughout the tropics. The male’s agenda apparently includes reducing the chances that a female will mate with any weevil after she has mated him, say Helen S. Crudgington and Mike T. Siva-Jothy of the University of Sheffield in England.