courtesy of Kazuhiro Tanaka
An extremely rare cricket with female sex organs but male wings and behaviour is giving biologists insights into sexual behaviour.
Gynandromorphs, creatures that possess both male and female characteristics, are extremely rare. They sometimes appear in butterflies, other bugs and even in birds – occasionally the individuals are literally split right down the middle.
Kazuhiro Tanaka at the Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University in Sendai, Japan, and his team found the peculiar lawn ground cricket (Polionemobius Mikado) in the ruins …