Squid reproduce sexually. A female can produce thousands of eggs, which she stores in her ovary. ... When they mate, the male uses a special arm to transfer packets of his sperm into the female's mantle cavity or around her mouth, where the eggs are waiting.

Why do squid die after mating?

That's because they're semelparous, which means they reproduce just once before they die. With female octopuses, once she's laid her eggs, that's it. ... These same secretions, it seems, inactivate the digestive and salivary glands, which leads to the octopus starving to death.

How does the male squid impregnate the female?

The evidence suggests that the male is a rather violent lover, grabbing the female in the darkness and injecting sperm into her skin at high pressure, creating a small wound. Later, the sperm is used to fertilize eggs. Rough sex is not unknown in the animal kingdom.