From EDWARD RICHARDS
Following on from Daniel Bickel’s interesting article on the sex life
of flies, I wonder if anyone can add anything to or explain my observations
of two beetles which wandered into my classroom a few weeks ago (‘Sex with
a twist in the tail’, 25 August).
Otherwise looking rather ordinary, they were attached back to back so
that the larger (about one inch long) was dragging the smaller one behind
it. I presume that they were mating though the posture was very odd; although
one advantage might be that between them they could see all around, the
smaller (male?) one did not seem to have much say in where to go.
Edward Richards Sabasaba Kenya
