Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances
2017年4月27日 · Female dragonflies use an extreme tactic to get rid of unwanted suitors: they drop out the sky and then pretend to be dead. Rassim Khelifa from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, witnessed...
Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Unwanted Male Advances
How does the female moorland hawker dragonfly ward off unwanted mating advances? Learn about dragonflies playing dead in this HowStuffWorks article.
Dragonfly - Wikipedia
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of dragonflies are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threatens dragonfly populations around the world.
Why Female Dragonflies Go to Extreme Lengths to Avoid Sex
2017年5月1日 · Some female dragonflies go to great lengths to avoid sex—they fake their own deaths. For the first time, a scientist has observed that female moorland hawker dragonflies freeze mid-air, crash...
Female Dragonflies Play Dead to Escape Stalking Males
2017年5月1日 · Female dragonflies say no to sex by faking their deaths, new research has found. Once a female dragonfly has mated, all she is interested in doing is laying eggs and getting on with her life....
Why Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Males
2017年5月1日 · That’s because, according to new research, female moorland hawker dragonflies sometimes drop from the air and play dead when they see an eager male approaching—a strategy designed to protect them...
Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Sex - Newsweek
2017年4月28日 · In order to avoid males of the species bothering them for sex, female dragonflies fake their own deaths, falling from the sky and lying motionless on the ground until the suitor goes away.
Female dragonflies found to fake death to avoid male advances
2017年5月1日 · (Phys.org)—A biologist with the University of Zurich has discovered a species of dragonfly whose females play dead to avoid copulating with other males once her eggs have already been...
Female dragonflies feign death to avoid sex - Popular Science
2017年5月3日 · Once a female hawker has mated, any subsequent mating can damage her reproductive tract, so she’s highly motivated to avoid aggressive males who might hurt her. And since the word “no” does not...
Why Do Female Dragonflies Fake Their Death?
2024年10月2日 · Female dragonflies, known as sexual death feigning, are known to avoid mating with aggressive males. Once a female dragonfly has mated, she is only interested in laying eggs and getting on with her life.