Explain how one insects goes about finding its mate and reproducing.?
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All animals release pheromones, or perfumes, that attract others, show dominance, etc. So insects attract others this way and then mate. While the fertilization is the same, the mating process is different for many insects. However, many times the female may eat the male.
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Dispersal of males (and females remain in the mother group) and... not quite sure.\nCheck this: http://www.eva.mpg.de/primat/pdf/MunizCurrentBiol2006.pdf
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birds and bees pollenate flowers which make them grow and flourish and their seed then spread and the cycle starts again. like people male pollenate women then the stork comes and bring a new baby. wink,wink,nod,nod,righteo,righteo.
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to mate with someone.
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they lay eggs in clusters! many of them. and yes..they do have some sort of sex but not the version that you have in your mind.
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This is often thought of as heplful in the mating process. It gives a "target" of sorts. Kind of the same idea as baboon butts.
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I say that goes back to the guys line of pretty much spreading their seed as far and into many chicks as they can. Pretty much the same in the animal kingdom. Its very rare that any male of the species mates with any one female for life. And females just need that one provider and protector. They don't need to spread seed or anything else. They work off of connections rather than how many times and how many people they can have sex with.
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To ensure procreation.
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Sex determination: sex is based on number of X chromosomes. grasshopper XO male, XX is female. \n\nTaxonomy of one species of grasshopper: http://www.cnr.vt.edu/fishex/nmex_main/species/082715.htm\n\nThis is an excellent source for the feeding behavior: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en507/papers_1999/nadeau.htm\n\nMovement of Grasshopper:\nJointed appendages move for locomotion\nThinner at joints to allow movement\nAppendages are weight bearing: allows for crawling and jumping\nMuscles are not associated with body wall\nMuscles bundles on inside, attached to exoskeleton\nAntagonistic pairs allow movement of appendage in both directions\nThird pair of legs are long with powerful muscles for jumping\nTwo pairs of wings for flight\nAnterior pair stiff like fixed wings of planes\nPosterior pair are membranous provide lift and propulsion\n(source: http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~iemerson/lectures1001/lecfram24.html)
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When the egg and the sperm fuse (in sexual reproduction) a single cell is formed.  That cell divides and divides and keeps on dividing until a full sized critter or plant is formed.\n\nSingle celled creatures reproduce by splitting in half to make two new critters.
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If you see two adult butterflies with their abdomens linked tail-to-tail, they are mating. The male grasps the female and deposits a sperm packet, which fertilizes the female's eggs. The butterflies can fly while mating, but they usually avoid moving unless they are disturbed. \n\nButterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis in which they go through four different life stages. \nEgg - A butterfly starts its life as an egg. \nLarva - The larva (caterpillar) hatches from an egg and eats leaves or flowers almost constantly. The caterpillar molts (loses its old skin) many times as it grows. \nPupa - It turns into a pupa (chrysalis); this is a resting stage. \nAdult - A beautiful, flying adult emerges. There is no growth during this stage. This adult will continue the cycle and reproduce.
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Parthenogenesis - do a little homework
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Reproduction is usually sexual. Males are usually smaller than females (often very much smaller) and often have a characteristically bent tail for holding the female for copulation. During copulation, one or more chitinized spicules move out of the cloaca and are inserted into genital pore of the female. Amoeboid sperm crawl along the spicule into the female worm.\n\nEggs may be embryonated or unembryonated when passed by the female, meaning that their fertilized eggs may not yet be developed. In free-living roundworms, the eggs hatch into larva, which eventually grow into adults; in parasitic roundworms, the life cycle is often much more complicated.
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Most insects -- and that is the case of flies -- have internal fetilization, so they do mate.
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The mating season, lasting from September to October, is followed by a nine-month gestation period after which 600- 700 eggs are laid and wrapped in a silky cocoon which the female, alone, guards aggressively. The mother tolerates the babies for a short period of time in which she might even feed them regurgitated food, but very briefly. Within a matter of weeks, or certainly by the time the female has her next molt, the babies are on their own. The mortality rate is very high and ants are a major menace. The life span of the female is thought to be 15- 25 years and possibly more than that. The male lives a much shorter time, not only because the female sometimes eats him, but more frequently because he does not molt correctly, or cannot escape his molt for some reason. Also, the male is usually the one seeking to mate, and so is more exposed to predictors.
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The female cockroach need the male to impregnate her once during her life.  After that she can lay 100's of eggs without the male.  Sometimes the female will carry around the egg sacs until they hatch, but she doesn't care for the young.
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Here's a few:\n\nMost roaches are female.\n\nThe females can clone themselves.\n\nFemales only need to have sex *once* - they store sperm for later use.  \n\nFemales can produce in excess of one million eggs over the course of their lifetime.\n\nRoaches are necrovores - they only eat things that are already dead.