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Male wasps make love to orchids

msnbc.msn.com — Orchids may be enthralling to humans, but our love of these flowers only goes so far. Some wasps, on the other hand, find orchids so enchanting that they sexually climax while visiting them. The fact that males squander thousands of sperm is puzzling. Sex takes a lot out of the wasps, energy the males could better spend on

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CyberStriker, on 04/28/2008, -7/+23Rule 34, I suppose...
- bluezinc, on 04/28/2008, -0/+15Did the Orchids give their consent?
  - Hoogie7Dowser, on 04/28/2008, -0/+21Orchid rape is about violence and power.
    - dynelol, on 04/28/2008, -0/+11Nobody ever said nature was a nice place.
  - gak001, on 04/28/2008, -1/+8If they didn't want it, they wouldn't make themselves look that way.
  - MrSidnet, on 04/29/2008, -2/+1Guess new comment system still doesnt deter comment spam..
    - defectDS, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Look who's talking.
- BriVaps, on 04/29/2008, -1/+2why do wasps make love
  if a human does it he msaterbates
threemagic, on 04/28/2008, -0/+35I didn't know I had so much in common with wasps.
- Hoogie7Dowser, on 04/29/2008, -0/+4You've been performing bukkake on orchids, as well?
  Let's meet up!
rkdotan, on 06/06/2008, -0/+44that sticky stuff aint honey
- bluezinc, on 04/28/2008, -0/+18But it suuuure tastes like it!
  - Mootabolife, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2If you eat a lot of honey...
killbert24, on 04/28/2008, -2/+11I don't blame them. Those orchids smell so sweet and it has long been tradition to refer to a woman's 'love spot' as a 'flower'. The wasps have got to get off somehow! Orchids are their porn.
- dafunkmonster, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3FIXED: I love my blow-up doll, and the wasps should be entitled to the same.
Shaman760, on 04/28/2008, -0/+31Well the female wasps aren't giving it up at home.....and the flower is there......what's the problem? :)
- sipsyrup, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1orchids... nature's sperm dumpsters
amanilaenvelope, on 04/28/2008, -1/+19i guess they OGC to orchid pictures then.
CatsAreGods, on 04/28/2008, -0/+25I'm sure there are plenty of weirdos out there that jerk off to flowers too.
- noahgelman, on 04/28/2008, -0/+27*slowly raises hand*
- knoxchris, on 04/28/2008, -1/+7FAP FAP FAP FAP
- dynelol, on 04/28/2008, -0/+10where have all the flowers gone..
- dollar0dot02, on 04/28/2008, -5/+2OGC
- deltaandroid, on 04/29/2008, -0/+8"I rushed down to the lab, saw the wasp sperm on the flowers glowing blue under UV light and was absolutely delighted." FTA
B08ama, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3Nature is so creative.
DickyT83, on 04/28/2008, -0/+23"Sex takes a lot out of the wasps, energy the males could better spend on"

Story of my life...minus the sex of course.
- noahgelman, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3does that count as sex or masturbation? its a plant, so if it counts as sex, if i do a tree, does that mean i lost my virginity?
  - killbert24, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7Yes it does. Videotape yourself and submit it to Digg for congratulations.
MaleMaldives, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9new fetishes?
Alix7, on 04/28/2008, -3/+1Insect flesh doll
bag2p, on 04/28/2008, -11/+1haha! the flowers trick them into having tranny sex.
nusuni, on 04/28/2008, -5/+3Hm... so that explains the strange yellow and black flying flower I saw the other day.
Scottievm, on 04/28/2008, -2/+8Who can honestly say they haven't squandered thousands of sperm on an orchid at least once? Right, okay, just me then. Carry on...
rusty123jimi, on 04/28/2008, -22/+2Why is this on the front page of digg...? Honestly...anyone with a decent education already knows this information...
- rabidg00se, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4WHAT
  
  did you read the article?
  - rusty123jimi, on 04/29/2008, -4/+1No...I went to college smart ass!
    - rabidg00se, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1you realize this is a new discovery, right? a new, unpublished discovery? don't be so ignorant next time.
dangsta, on 04/28/2008, -0/+45takes deflowering to a whole new level
- pyronik, on 04/29/2008, -1/+2hehe i was going to say something similar, had to do an alt-F to see if i was stealing it.. props
ReneRuizJ, on 04/28/2008, -2/+8"The fact that males squander thousands of sperm is puzzling. Sex takes a lot out of the wasps, energy the males could better spend on..."

What do you mean squander? It feeeeeels good for the wasps. Guaranteed they don't think it's a waste- no matter how much energy is 'wasted.'
- loconet, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1No need to get defensive. Listen, when they said wasp they actually meant the insect. Nobody is attacking you and your weird sexual activities.
- dynelol, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1If having gotten off on an orchid means that the wasp is in a better mood and in turn is less likely to sting me then i say it's a good thing.
FaithclubDotNet, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4Killer Instinct
- Scira, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker
gophertau, on 04/28/2008, -3/+4Orchids are like the Internet to wasps
ShempRider, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2I guess this chick doesn't get much wasp action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_arum
Could be wrong, though...
Darmichar, on 04/28/2008, -9/+1Thanks for that riveting report on Wasp sperm and Orchids.
I guess they finally figured out that whole Cancer thing and have moved on to bigger and better.
nessajune21, on 04/28/2008, -3/+5skeet skeet
pardonmedoug, on 04/28/2008, -2/+3This is an interesting article, but it's sad that MSNBC feels the need to write about science in such titillating terms.
Picaroon, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7Not their "precious bodily fluids"!
- doctechnical, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5I don't avoid flowers, Mandrake, I simply deny them my essence.
  - cvrefugee, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2I just saw that movie today for the first time.
jejeje666, on 04/28/2008, -2/+18"I rushed down to the lab, saw the wasp sperm on the flowers glowing blue under UV light and was absolutely delighted."

Pervert.
alclone, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7I know the word for having sex with an animal is bestiality (zoophlia)... but what's the word for having sex with a plant?
floraphilia?
uberAileen, on 04/28/2008, -3/+19am i the only one who misinterpreted that headline as "Male White Anglo-Saxon Protestants Make Love to Orchids"? ...which also makes sense...
- PatoLucas, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3No, you aren0t alone my friend :)
- zombird, on 04/29/2008, -0/+4White flower
- Echo18, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Oh good! I was waiting for this... was worried that after 100 something comments no one else had seen it. I laughed for about a minute after reading the title, thinking of old white guys making love to flowers.
StuTheMeatMan, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Dawkins explains this wonderfully.
AtiimKiambu, on 04/28/2008, -1/+14This is definitely not true. I'm a male WASP, and I've never felt the urge to bang a flower. Buried as inaccurate.
boredrph, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4can't blame them... i've made love to women allot uglier than an orchid
burgermeiste, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3So do king bees.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GPGD_PzXq28
EggAndMuffin, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2"To see if the wasps experienced "happy endings," the researchers monitored the wasps and orchids in the field."

Wild life porn caught on tape !
- TheCubanSpy, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Hey, *****, we like to call it inter-species erotica
warMen, on 04/28/2008, -0/+6"I rushed down to the lab, saw the wasp sperm on the flowers glowing blue under UV light and was absolutely delighted."

id be pretty pumped too
Hillsfar, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3The article mentions that of the species where males do that with the flowers, most have females that can reproduce without sperm. That's also an evolutionary advantage: If the males are expending themselves, the species that survive will be the ones that don't need the males' expenditures.
WilliamDavis, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Obama's open to funding this type of research. I just thought everyone would want to know.
FascistNation, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7I am pretty certain this is a felony in all 50 states. Bestiality?...Pedalphilia.
- dynelol, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4Petalphilia
stix213, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Now if there was only a plant that would go through the trouble of tricking humans into having sex with it.
TheScreamer, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Have you even *seen* Georgia O'Keefe's Orchid paintings??? I'd hit it !
MrTea, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Somewhere in Japan, a fetish is born.
GregIsLegend, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4"I rushed down to the lab, saw the wasp sperm on the flowers glowing blue under UV light and was absolutely delighted."

someone needs to get out more.
doctechnical, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Nice knowing I'm giving my girlfriend a set of wasp spooge receptacles.

/girlfriend, I wish
donkz, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1In yesterday's article about smelling flowers they said something about male wasps. I thought they probably put it in there... I'm still surprized to be right.
imightbewrong, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1as you have well surmised...this is not a botanical research center...
FourDoor, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1I have several orchid plants in the backyard and just this past weekend while repainting my house, I noticed a large number of wasp nests under the eaves. This could explain why those daym wasps are hanging around my place...
supremebeing18, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1At first glance I thought they meant white anglo-saxon protestants.
cvrefugee, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Doesn't orchid mean testicle in Greek? Anyways, watch out for the Orchid Mantis!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFXTxphcmZs
robthom, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Whats that smell?
Aeron, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1This sounds like the kind of thing I get in my junkmail, FTA:
Gaskett recalled. "I rushed down to the lab, saw the wasp sperm on the flowers glowing blue under UV light and was absolutely delighted."
evilcaptain, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Fleshlight?
Lahonda, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1They're only trying to find the clitoris... shades of South Park. How prophetic!
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