•  Spendrill   ( @Spendrill@lemm.ee ) 
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    54 months ago

    Wikipedia:
    To mate
    following courtship,
    the male usually leaps onto the female’s back,
    clasping her thorax and wing bases
    with his forelegs.
    He then arches his abdomen
    to deposit and store sperm
    in a special chamber near the tip of the female’s abdomen.
    The female lays between 10 and 400 eggs,
    depending on the species. Eggs are typically deposited in a froth mass-produced by glands
    in the abdomen.
    This froth hardens,
    creating a protective capsule,
    which together with the egg mass
    is called an ootheca.