Men are from ants, women are from grasshoppers. At least if you’re a strepsipteran fly. Females are basically bags of eggs inside of insect hosts, while males develop in other species. The arrow here shows the female Caenocholax fenyesi in a cricket. At the bottom is a free-living male. (via Parasite lives ‘double life’ - University of Oxford) Credit: Jeya Kathirithamby. 
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Men are from ants, women are from grasshoppers. At least if you’re a strepsipteran fly. Females are basically bags of eggs inside of insect hosts, while males develop in other species. The arrow here shows the female Caenocholax fenyesi in a cricket. At the bottom is a free-living male.

(via Parasite lives ‘double life’ - University of Oxford)

Credit: Jeya Kathirithamby. 

Source: ox.ac.uk

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