Bug Sex

Male black widow spiders will offer themselves up to females as a complimentary post-coital meal. If fruit flies can’t have sex, they get drunk. And a cricket species in Hawaii has undergone the fastest evolutionary adaptation (to their mating call, nonetheless) known to science.cThere are ten quintillion bugs on earth, and they all need to have sex in order for their genes to move on to another generation. BUG SEX takes us into the bizarre world of how bugs do it — everything from sperm packets to sexual cannibalism. In this film, we gain firsthand insights into the fascinating journey of evolution. It offers us a unique opportunity to peer into an alternate world, one that surrounds us every day, yet remains largely shrouded in mystery. Despite our proximity to this world, our understanding of it remains surprisingly limited.