The ejaculation is so powerful that it ruptures the endophallus, disconnecting the drone from the queen. The bulb of the endophallus is broken off inside of the queen during matingâso drones only mate once, and die shortly after. The leftover penis remaining in the queenâs vagina is referred to as the âmating signâ.
ctypes reference. ctypes is a foreign function library for Python. It provides C compatible data types, and allows to call functions in dlls/shared libraries. It can be used to wrap these libraries in pure Python.
ctypes exports the byref function which is used to pass parameters by reference. The same effect can be achieved with the pointer function, although pointer does a lot more work since it constructs a real pointer object, so it is faster to use byref if you don't need the pointer object in Python itself: