http://tebtosca.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] tebtosca.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] tebtosca 2013-07-02 06:30 pm (UTC)

To mate following courtship, the male usually leaps onto the female’s back, and clasps her thorax and wing bases with his forelegs. He then arches his abdomen to deposit and store sperm in a special chamber near the tip of the female’s abdomen.

-"Mantis" (source: Wikipedia)

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