How does the assassin bug reproduce and how is it beneficial to the species in general?
Assassin bugs (Order Hemiptera, Family Reduviidae) reproduce as male/female pairs. I have not heard of mating dances in the Family, nor have I heard of mate cannibalism or parthenogenetic species (this is where a species has only females, who lay fertile eggs that have a “re-shuffling” of their own genes instead of mixing genes with a male). Sexual reproduction is believed to have evolved to provide differences in the protein coats of the cells, making it difficult for parasites and pathogens to “latch on” to the cells. This is for any species.
