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When a mother and father make love, they lie next to each other, very close, kissing and hugging. The father’s penis gets very hard and he puts it into the mother’s vagina. The young caterpillar enters the flower bud and devours the folded flower parts, then exits by a round lateral hole and enters another bud which it precedes to empty in the same fashion. After the first stage of fruit formation, it attacks the young fruit, penetrating it laterally via the receptacle. Depending on the season, it also attacks tender young shoots and leaves which it joins together to form a web. It also penetrates developed fruits by boring a gallery in the skin. This feels very nice to both of them, and it is a special way to show each other how much they love each other. A liquid called semen comes out of the father’s penis into the mother’s vagina. The young caterpillar spins silken threads which cover the attacked inflorescences. If the time is right, the mother will have a little egg, so tiny you couldn’t even see it, inside of her uterus. If the liquid from the father’s penis meets that little egg, a baby will start to grow in her uterus. A few hours later, the female lays 1 to 3 eggs on a flower bud then moves to another. Total observed fertility: 60 to 150 eggs.