> In certain bee species, the male’s body literally explodes after copulation, due to a sudden increase in intra-abdominal pressure, which embeds part of the now-deceased male’s body into the female’s genital tract, preventing other males from copulating with the just-fertilized female.
Wrong; other males can still mate with the female. The whole point is for her to mate with multiple males. I wonder what else in this story is incorrect
Multiple males do mate with the queen, with the everted endophallus acting as a signal to other males and perhaps offering protection from the queen's stinger. Technical term seems to be "mating sign," and males prefer queens with a mating sign.
Wrong; other males can still mate with the female. The whole point is for her to mate with multiple males. I wonder what else in this story is incorrect