Beetle's beer bottle sex wins Ig Nobel Prize

September 30, 2011 12:31

Certain Australian beetles will try to copulate with discarded beer bottles, but they have to be of the right type - brown ones with bobbly bits on them. This fascinating observation made almost 30 years ago has finally landed entomologists Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz with an Ig Nobel Prize. Read the report in the bbc.co.uk.

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