Male honeybees probably have one of the most intense orgasms in the animal kingdom and after it is all said and done they suffer from something decidedly more fatal than the little death so favored by the French. The male honey bee literally explodes after climax, dislodging its genitals like a plug inside the queen so she will have less of chance to mate with more males. Male honeybees have a hard life anyways, they must have sex in the air, literally getting to mate with the queen only if they are able to catch up with her. And then they have to contend with at least 25,000 other males, which makes the whole human bar scene look pathetically easy. Since only about twenty males will get to mate with the queen anyways, its not necessarily a death sentence for most of the males. But those males who do get to mate with the queen explode because after-wards their penis is lodged in her hinderparts, potentially preventing other males from implanting her with their seed and since the queen spends the rest of her life having a 1/2 million children are so, a male stands the chance to sire a great many offspring. Besides its not like they are going to have the chance to mate again after-wards anyways.

Of course, in order to outdo other males, the honeybee has made some penis advancements of its own, to deal with the dislodged penises of their brethren. Male honeybees have evolved a hairy structure on the tip of their penis, the catches other bee’s genitalia and dislodges it.

Honeybees are not the only animals that use the plug. Many rodents use the plug, though they stick to more traditional forms like a paste that is released after copulation, which solidifies inside the female rather quickly, plugging her up, as it were. The male rat has developed a penis that is like a plunger, which it can use better than the best plumber, to suck out any unwanted plugs that happen to be impeding on its seed spreading.

Judson, Olivia. Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation. Holt Paperbacks: New York, 2002.