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Do insects exhibit homosexual behavior

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Here is a list of insects that have been observed engaging in homosexual behavior:

  1. Alfalfa weevil
  2. Australian parasitic wasp
  3. Bean weevil
  4. Bedbug and other bug
  5. Blister beetle
  6. Blowfly
  7. Broadwinged damselfly
  8. Cabbage (small) white (butterfly)
  9. Checkerspot butterfly
  10. Club-tailed dragonfly
  11. Cockroach
  12. Common skimmer dragonfly
  13. Creeping water bug
  14. Cutworm
  15. Digger bee
  16. Dragonfly
  17. Eastern giant ichneumon wasp
  18. Eucalyptus longhorned borer
  19. Field cricket
  20. Flour beetle
  21. Fruit fly
  22. Glasswing butterfly
  23. Hypoponera opacior ant
  24. Grape berry moth
  25. Grape borer
  26. Green lacewing
  27. Hen flea
  28. House fly
  29. Ichneumon wasp
  30. Japanese scarab beetle
  31. Larch bud moth
  32. Large milkweed bug
  33. Large white
  34. Long-legged fly
  35. Mazarine blue
  36. Mexican white (butterfly)
  37. Midge
  38. Migratory locust
  39. Monarch butterfly
  40. Narrow-winged damselfly
  41. Parsnip leaf miner
  42. Pomace fly
  43. Queen butterfly
  44. Red ant
  45. Red flour beetle
  46. Reindeer warble fly (Hypoderma tarandi)
  47. Rose chafer[disambiguation needed]
  48. Rove beetle
  49. Scarab beetle (melolonthine)
  50. Screwworm fly
  51. Silkworm moth
  52. Southeastern blueberry bee
  53. Southern green stink bug
  54. Southern masked chafer
  55. Southern one-year canegrub
  56. Spreadwinged damselfly
  57. Spruce budworm moth
  58. Stable fly
  59. Stag beetle
  60. Tsetse fly
  61. Water boatman bug
  62. Water strider
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Yes, hundreds of different species exhibit homosexual behaviour, including insects (in approximately 110 species).

Some of these include: Fruit flies, Dragonflies and Bed Bugs.

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Yes, dolphins have been observed exhibiting homosexual behavior.

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