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A pair of chalkhill blue butterflies mating at Swelshill Bank near Stroud. This was taken last Tuesday morning when I met up with fellow flickr member Rod Holbrook
Dragonflies.
Scientific name: Sympetrum striolatum.
Mating is often performed whilst perched on waterside vegetation and this process can last up to fifteen minutes. Once the female has received the sperm she will disengage to allow her to lay eggs but the male continues to hold onto her to make sure she doesn't fly off and mate with any of his competitors.
Info: Saga.
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Taken from a boat around the Farne Islands.
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Lygaeid Bugs
The Lygaeidae are a family in the Hemiptera (true bugs), with some 60 genera in six subfamilies. The family includes the insects commonly known as milkweed bugs, and also some of those known as seed bugs.
www.projectnoah.org/spottings/14686108
These bugs were on the sepals of a red Abutilon flower.
This is a mated pair of Canada geese that stays in this place on Lake Champlain to raise a family. They hang out, separate from the rest in the reeds by the road. Same routine each year.
The rest of the geese here are getting R&R during their migration.
A pair of brown argus butterflies mating on some salad burnet on the steep south facing slopes of Swelshill Bank near Stroud. The male is the larger butterfly of the two.
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
Rogue Valley - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Habitat : Grasslands
Food : Insects
Nesting : Ground
Behavior : Ground Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
"A shorebird you can see without going to the beach, Killdeer are graceful plovers common to lawns, golf courses, athletic fields, and parking lots. These tawny birds run across the ground in spurts, stopping with a jolt every so often to check their progress, or to see if they’ve startled up any insect prey. Their voice, a far-carrying, excited kill-deer, is a common sound even after dark, often given in flight as the bird circles overhead on slender wings... The Killdeer’s broken-wing act leads predators away from a nest, but doesn’t keep cows or horses from stepping on eggs. To guard against large hoofed animals, the Killdeer uses a quite different display, fluffing itself up, displaying its tail over its head, and running at the beast to attempt to make it change its path."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
A Malaysian pied fantail (rhipidura javanica) seeking to attract a mate by displaying its fan, Photographed near Phetchaburi, Thailand.
Papilio demoleus bei der Paarung.
Mating Chequered Swallowtails
Tropische Schmetterlinge, Botanischer Garten München
The first of two posts that tell a story. This one captures the moment of mating between Caribbean reef squid. The moment happened so quickly that I didn't see it live. I only knew what happened once I looked at the captured image.
We spent about 1 hour watching the mating and the combat with this pair plus a bunch of other males competing for her attention. They didn't mind us. Maybe that is because they were busy with what they were doing and their life would be over shortly afterwards.
If you are curious to watch something that looked like what we saw: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YViRSgYys1o
Over the past few weeks these kingfishers have been providing some brilliant close views & entertainment for their growing army of fans
I initially thought this was an attempted mating - but the images show it is the female who jumped on top of the male - presumably because she was too impatient to wait for him to pass the fish!
Both birds then fell from the perch, but no harm done and the happy couple soon kissed and made up
[4 more shots from this sequence are posted in the comments below]
Faded Pincertail / Braune Zangenlibelle
(Onychogomphus costae)
Mating pair / Paarungsrad
Malaga Province, Spain / Spanien
August 2022
A mating pair of Common Darters ensuring there will be a another generation of these small dragonflies.
Canon FD lens adapted via Metabones
South Pond, Lincoln Park - Chicago, IL
July 2021
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