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Matt Potter @mattpotter@c.im
Good morning. Welcome to my first mild content warning. Insect erotica.
There is something oddly wholesome in finding out that male drosophila (fruit flies) are as a species, heavily into giving their partners oral sex.
Fig.1 (c) lays it all out.
![Current Biology 1. Courtship behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster. (a) A male orients towards a female and follows her. (b) As he follows her, he vibrates one wing to produce a species-specific 'love-song'. (c) If she likes him, she stops moving; he unfurls his proboscis and licks her genitalia. (d) If she does not run away, he curls his abdomen and attempts to mount. (e) Copulation lasts for about 20 minutes. (After Burnet and Connolly [18].)](https://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/113/072/453/764/707/741/original/76df1f8d8854ae20.jpeg "Current Biology 1. Courtship behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster. (a) A male orients towards a female and follows her. (b) As he follows her, he vibrates one wing to produce a species-specific 'love-song'. (c) If she likes him, she stops moving; he unfurls his proboscis and licks her genitalia. (d) If she does not run away, he curls his abdomen and attempts to mount. (e) Copulation lasts for about 20 minutes. (After Burnet and Connolly [18].)")
