If it’s been a couple weeks or months since you hooked up with a booty call, you might be tempted to say you’re experiencing a “dry spell”. But compared to the warramaba virgo grasshoppers, you’re as sexually active as they come: these exclusively female insects haven’t had sex in 25,000 years. Via the Independent:

An all-female species of grasshopper in Australia that ditched reproductive sex in favour of self-cloning is doing just fine, thank you very much.

Scientists at the University of Melbourne did a deep dive on the overall well-being of the Warramaba virgo, a type of grasshopper that’s been reproducing asexually for 250,000 years, in a phenomenon known as parthenogenesis.   

Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction in which an embryo develops without fertilization from sperm. It is extremely rare in the animal kingdom, though not unheard of. Kearney estimates it occurs in about one in 1,000 species.

We wonder if ol’ warramaba should dip their toes (or antennae?) back in the booty pool. Maybe they’re really missing out!

Feel like you haven’t gotten laid in 25,000 years? Time to log into your OBC account and meet someone – TONIGHT!