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Black-Horned Tree Cricket

'Tree crickets exhibit a behavior called courtship feeding. Shortly after copulation the male tree cricket secretes a fluid from the metanotal gland located between its wings in the thoracic cavity. This fluid provides the female with nutrients that help to increase the chances of reproduction.' - Wikipedia

 

Oecanthus nigricornis

 

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Uploaded on September 26, 2013
Taken on September 25, 2013