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Is inbreeding not an issue for insects?

It seems like very, very few insects can result in an explosive infestation (roaches, ants, bed bugs, etc.) Do insects not have the same negative effects from inbreeding that other animals do?
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A lot of insects avoid a lot of the issues with inbreeding by their gender system.

These Male insects only have 1 copy of each chromosome. This means that if they have defective copies of genes, they will die and not progress to adulthood and mating. They cannot hide receive deleterious traits in their genome.

Inbreeding is therefore safer than in mammals, where deleterious recessive traits can combine with inbreeding to form homozygous expressed phenotypes.