A photo from open sources
On one of the Internet resources, the life of this tiny insect they even called it poetically – sad, however, I think the author too humanized the male Dicopomorpha echmepterygis, which in reality is one hundred percent fulfilling the functions and duties assigned to him by nature.
Although this male is actually tiny – no more than 139 micromillimeters. It is several times smaller than the female Dicopomorpha echmepterygis (see photo below for comparison), but unlike from his female half, this male is also deprived of almost all the organs that are necessary for existence in our physical world. He has neither eyes nor wings, not even the mouth (of course, and digestive function also). This little male is an example of evolutionary minimalism, he born, fertilizes the female and then dies. To do this, he just a few minutes.
A photo from open sources
But the female Dicopomorpha echmepterygis is more functional: she, hatched next to the male and soon fertilized by him, eats all the insides of an egg that has become for this couple maternity hospital and marriage bed, gets out and looks the next egg is the victim, where she will lay a new clutch.
Here is such a simple life cycle of little parasitic insects Dicopomorpha echmepterygis, where the female, as here many Internet users have identified, again ruling that is observed in almost every “family cell” fauna. For example, Melittoba parasite wasps do the same. acasta. Among the spiders, some females, after fertilization, right there eat their boyfriends. The same thing is shown by a female mantis, if, Of course, this nimble handsome man will not give time to tear.
In general, as one of the users noted, females are always and in everything they rule, although, for example, an illusion is created in human society, that everything happens exactly the opposite. And not one of the men even does not notice (and even more so does not admit to himself in this) that his also easy to use, and then “eaten” – without a trace …
A pretentious statement, of course, isn’t it? But … something in there is …
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