You've probably heard men saying they "got lucky" and somehow persuaded a lady to have sex with them.

But if bees could speak, there is absolutely no way they would say the same thing.

2 French people say orgasms are a 'little death' - but they are BIG deaths for male bees

It turns out that male honeybees' testicles EXPLODE when they reach orgasm, killing the poor insects.

Vicki Sims, a 45-year-old beekeeper and pest controller from London, uses YouTube to spread the buzz about her passions.

She told Time Out that bloke bees pay a heavy price for satisfying their libido.

"I like to educate people," she said.

"When the male honeybee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and he dies.

"If you were a male honeybee, you could only have sex once.

"Isn't that sad?"

There are a number of species whose entire bodies are broken during sex, not just their hearts.

Ecologists have identified four types of mammal that quite literally bonk themselves to death.

Male marsupials put so much effort into their romps that they die of exhaustion.

These insect-eating beasties engage in "frenzied mating" sessions which last 14 hours.

The men become so stressed and exhausted that illness quickly overwhelms them, whilst the (presumably satisfied) women walk away and are left to give birth on their own.

"Species that spend more energy on mating in the first breeding season risk never having another chance to breed," said Diana Fisher of the University of Queensland in Australia.

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This mating practice is known as "suicide sex". Animals such as the antechinus (pictured above) first exhaust themselves trying to compete against other mates, before being finished off when they finally get (un)lucky.

'There's orgies of violence and sex and, in antechinus, it happens every year," Dr Andrew Baker, a mammologist at the Queensland University of Technology, told ABC.

'They'll bleed internally, they have ulcers, their fur falls off in patches, sometimes they're stumbling around blind and still trying to mate."

And we've all known someone like that, haven't we?