Sexual Sabotage among Crickets

NeuroDojo reports on an article which finds that exposure to male cricket seminal fluid has some odd impact on female crickets. First of all, female crickets who were exposed walked forward less and secondly, they have shorter lives. Now the question would be that if the female crickets knew their lives would be shortened by sex, would they still do it?

This research sounds like some sort of warning a mother cricket tells her girls to try to prevent them from becoming slutty or a bad joke one tells in an insect bar.

So here's another: "A praying mantis is angry at his girl friend. He says to her 'Bite Me', so she did."