Submission + - Sexual conflict over mating impacts the parental care behaviour - a beetle study (exeter.ac.uk)
Chipmunk100 writes: Beetles have surprisingly complex parental care, similar in form to that provided by birds such as robins or blackbirds, with offspring begging to be fed by touching parents, who respond by regurgitating partially digested food. Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that sexual conflict over mating impacts the parental care behaviour and reproductive productivity of burying beetles.