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    The entomology book Life on a Little Known Planet taught me that bebugs mate via “traumatic insemination”. The female has no opening, so the male pierces the exoskeleton and the wound later heals over – all of which allows entomologoists to count the number of times a female has mated by the number of scars on their abdomen.