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Le mâle possède lui des ailes normalement développées.
Prionolabis hospes (Egger, 1863) = Limnobia platyptera Macquart, 1834 = Limnophila hospes Egger, 1863.
Puesta de huevos en el medio de una laguna, desde lejos y muy ampliada, fue imposible acercarse en ningún momento a la pareja.
Egg laying. In themiddle of a pond, from afar and greatly magnified, it was impossible to get close to the couple at any time.
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Taken around the garden pond today, pair of common darters in the copulation wheel. Lots of egglaying followed and then the male stayed around to guard them and see off anything dodgy!
Mute Swans / cygnus olar. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 02/02/21.
‘HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY.'
Well, on this day out of any other, it had to be posted didn't it!
En este paraje al que llamo "El Puerto" ha habido años de poblaciones exageradas, en número, de Enallagma cyathigerum. Revisando carpetas he encontrado la del 4 de mayo y comprobado que ese día tengo cópulas de la especie con las 4 coloraciones distintas de la hembra.
Es la menos vista, la grisácea o pálida. Admito que me puedo confundir y ser una hembra androcroma muy joven.
Fotograma recortado un 6%
En El Puerto. Villena (Alicante) España
In this place that I call "The Port" there have been years of exaggerated populations, in number, of Enallagma cyathigerum. Reviewing folders I found the one from May 4 and verified that that day I have copulations of the species with the 4 different colorations of the female.
She is the least seen, the grayish or pale. I admit that I can get confused and be a very young androchrome female.
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In The Port. Villena (Alicante) Spain
Se sabe que las cópulas de Ischnura pueden durar varias horas. Puede deberse a que los machos de este género se esmeran en limpiar restos de esperma de otros machos, que pudiera tener la hembra, para que sea su esperma el que fecunde los huevos.
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En el Humedal. Villena (Alicante) España
It is known that Ischnura copulations can last several hours. It may be due to the fact that males of this genus take great pains to clean sperm from other males, which the female may have, so that it is her sperm that fecundates the eggs.
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In the Wetland. Villena (Alicante) Spain
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The Bee flies found it handy to sit on the spent flowers of Pig face plant Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum for copulation.
Photo: Fred
In Greek mythology, the Pyerides were the daughters of Piero, King of Macedonia, and Evipe.
They were nine young maidens, according to Lycander: Colimbade, Linge, Céncride, Cisa, Claoris, Acalántide, Nesa, Pipo and Dracóntide. Proudly believing themselves to be especially gifted with an exceptional talent for music, song and poetry, they challenged the Muses for supremacy in song.
The Muses were very Musey and of course they won; the Pyerides were transformed into magpies, keeping their chattering and rambunctious spirit.
In time, either because of the fact that he was born on Mount Piero or because of his victory over the daughters of Piero, the two names Muses and Pyerides tended to be identified.
En la mitología griega, las Piérides eran las hijas de Píero, rey de Macedonia y de Evipe.
Eran nueve jóvenes doncellas, según Licandro: Colímbade, Linge, Céncride, Cisa, Claoris, Acalántide, Nesa, Pipo y Dracóntide. Orgullosas por creerse especialmente dotadas con un excepcional talento para la música, el canto y la poesía, retaron a las Musas para así disputarles la supremacía del canto.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierides_(mythology)
Las Musas eran muy musas y por supuesto ganaron; las Piérides quedaron transformadas en urracas, manteniendo su espíritu parlanchín y alborotador.
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Con el tiempo, bien sea por el hecho de haber nacido en el Monte Piero o por su victoria sobre las hijas de Píero, ambos nombres Musas y Piérides tenderían a identificarse.
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Rapae, del latín rapa (nabo), aunque sus plantas nutricias son principalmente crucíferas.
Black Skimmers mating -
Nickerson Beach, Long Island, New York, USA
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Black Guillemots / cepphus grylle. Oban, Scotland. 15/05/22.
I watched Black Guillemot courtship behaviour whilst pairs were swimming and also, when they flew to the top of the esplanade wall. The short displays were very intense and animated and I think would become more protracted as the month advanced.
The pair shown here had suddenly flown up from the sea and were vocalising to each other, beaks pointing slightly downwards. Moments later the male started a high-stepping walk around the female, his beak angled more acutely downwards. She immediately crouched submissively, but copulation didn't take place. It was early days for them and the behaviour more about strengthening their pair bond than procreation.
What a striking pair they made!
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Courtship precedes copulation. This involves courtship feeding. And once the female accepts the male's courtship offer of food, she will allow him to mount her. The pair then starts digging their nest using their feet to excavate a tunnel. As the depression deepened they use their bill to loosen the earth and their feet to displace the loosened particles. Once the nest is ready, the female would lay her eggs. And when the eggs hatch, the adults would hunt for insects to feed the chicks,
KLEINER KOHLWEISSLING oder RÜBENWEISSLING, CABBAGE WHITE or CABBAGE BUTTERFLY ( Pieris rapae ).
Birds don´t eat them. They are white butterflies. Adult butterflies living until 3 weeks.
Pair of Oedemera femorata beetles copulating on a common daisy (Bellis perennis) flower.
Para zalęszczyc gruboudych (Oedemera femorata) kopulujących na kwiecie stokrotki pospolitej (Bellis perennis).
Went to Pacifica to check on the peregrine falcons. Was debating whether to put a teleconverter on since didn't see anything when everything started to go crazy, at least 3 peregrine falcons were flying around, zipping behind the rocks, flying overhead, landing in the two old nests/cavities in the rocks, taking off and finally copulating.
Common red soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) copulating on some blooming umbellifer.
Zmieki żółte (Rhagonycha fulva) kopulujące na jakimś kwitnącym baldaszkowatym.
Eurasian Oystercatcher / haematopus ostralegus. Frampton, Lincolnshire. 11/04/24.
'CHOOSING.' (1)
The Oystercatcher pair had made their way slowly across the top of the island, female always leading. When I made this image, she had stopped, raised her tail and the male made a half-hearted attempt to copulate, but failed. She then corrected her posture and both turned their attention to the ground. I thought at first the pale shape under her chin was an egg, but now I think it was a rounded stone!
Perhaps they were in the process of choosing a nest site?
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Copulating Chalk-Hill Blues photographed this morning near Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire. this was one of six pairs found as well as many emerging males and females.
Sigo con las cópulas de los Coenagrion puella, esta vez con la hembra de la forma azul (androcroma).
Aquella balsa y sus inmediaciones dio bastante juego, y disfrutamos de sus encantadores “habitantes”.
Fotografiado en: La Balsa. Villanueva de Alcorón. Guadalajara. España.
Coenagrion puella, ♂♀
I continue with the copulations of the Coenagrion puella, this time with the female of the blue form (androcroma).
That raft and its surroundings gave quite a game, and we enjoyed its charming "inhabitants".
Photographed in: La Balsa. Villanueva de Alcorón. Guadalajara. Spain.
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Bonne journée.
Thanks you all for your visits, faves and comments.
Have a good day.
La hembra está acercando el extremo de su abdomen para recoger la carga de esperma del macho.
The female is bringing the end of her abdomen closer to pick up the male's sperm load.
1/320, F/5.6, ISO 100, Flash soft box a -2
Post-coital Ostrich pair (Struthio camelus), Maasai Mara, Kenya.
It somehow reminds me of that famous painting "American Gothic."
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 430 genera in 15 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis.
The closest relatives of mantises are the termites and cockroaches (Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes confused with stick insects (Phasmatodea), other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies (Mantispidae). Mantises are mostly ambush predators, but a few ground-dwelling species are found actively pursuing their prey. They normally live for about a year. In cooler climates, the adults lay eggs in autumn, then die. The eggs are protected by their hard capsules and hatch in the spring. Females sometimes practice sexual cannibalism, eating their mates after copulation.
Mantises were considered to have supernatural powers by early civilizations, including Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, and Assyria. A cultural trope popular in cartoons imagines the female mantis as a femme fatale. Mantises are among the insects most commonly kept as pets.
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Females are black, but have a white breast and lower neck sides, a brown band on the wings, and a blue eye-ring that is diagnostic of the female of the species.
Immature birds have a white head and underparts.
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After copulation it is generally the male who gathers sticks and the female that constructs the loosely woven nest. The nest is subsequently covered with (and cemented by) guano.
Frigatebirds prefer to nest in trees or bushes, though when these are not available they will nest on the ground.
A single white egg that weighs up to 6–7% of mother's body mass is laid, and is incubated in turns by both birds for 41 to 55 days. The altricial chicks are naked on hatching and develop a white down.
They are continuously guarded by the parents for the first 4–6 weeks and are fed on the nest for 5–6 months. Both parents take turns feeding for the first three months, after which the male's attendance trails off leaving the mother to feed the young for another six to nine months on average.
The chicks feed by reaching their heads in their parents' throat and eating the part-regurgitated food. It takes so long to rear a chick that frigatebirds generally breed every other year.
The female damselfly is laying her eggs. Mating season for the Damselflies in our pond has begun. Just last week the nymphs emerged from the pond water to shed their skin and become colorless damselflies. As the young damselfly matures it will gain a beautiful color. The adult damselfly only lives one to three months; its main job is to find a mate and continue the life cycle.
See the photo below of the damselflies mating. It starts with the male damselfly grasping the female with his abdominal claspers. The same species of damselfly with fit like a lock and key.
Copulation can take from several minutes to several hours depending on the species. The male damselfly stays in tandem with the female while she lays her eggs. I watched as the red damselfly gently carried his bride to an inviting lily-pad.
This dedicated female damselfly, pictured above, was moving her abdomen every which way to try and find the water.
If the female damselfly could not find water to lay her eggs she would straighten her abdomen as if to signal lift off to her partner. The male Damselfly would gently lift her to another location.
Female damselflies normally use a bladelike ovipositor to place eggs inside plant tissue. From previous years I have seen the larva of the damselflies underneath the lily pads. When you turn the lily pad over you will see lines and markings with the damselfly eggs.
After about three weeks the young damselfly nymphs emerge and live underwater, insatiably feeding on small aquatic animals like tadpoles, mosquito larvae and just about anything it can get a hold of.
The damselfly and dragonfly nymphs are completely predatory, and not vegetarians at all.
As the female damselfly lays her eggs she is also supplying a healthy meal for our fish. We have three large goldfish, some say Koi, that will feast on the nymphs all year. During this mating season I do not have to add any fish food to the pond.
Many successive molts take place over a period of eleven months before the final nymphal stage is reached. The mature dragonfly nymph crawls out of the water onto a rock or plant stem during the night or early morning hours.
The nymphal skin splits dorsally and the winged damselfly adult pulls itself out to become fully expanded. It will take several days before it reaches top flight capacity.
Damselflies have been used as indicator species for assessing habitat and water quality in a variety of wetlands, natural water in forests, and lakeshore habitats around the world. Studies indicate they are one of our most beneficial insects.
Two Ischnura graellsii damselflies copulates holding on to a large thistle two meters high. The male (above) holds the female by the neck with the clamp at the end of the abdomen while the female (below) collects the male's sperm from the seminal vesicle.
Una pareja de Ischnura graellsii, caballitos de diablo, copula agarrada a un gran cardo de dos metros de altura. El macho (arriba) sostiene por el cuello a la hembra con su pinza del final de abdomen mientras esta (abajo) recoge de la vesícula seminal el esperma del macho.
100 mm Macro, 1/160m F/5.6, ISO 400
Hare ~ Havergate Island ~ Orford Ness ~ Sufflolk ~ England ~ Saturday July 25th 2015.
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Here's another shot of a Hare on Havergate Island in Orford Ness, Suffolk....I managed to capture this guy munching away in the early evening sunshine....although to get this shot I had to crawl 200m on my belly with my backpack on my back, to get close enough to get a half decent shot! The hare must have thought I was a giant tortoise lol...either way, he was nonplussed enough to let me get to within 4 feet of him...which was nice.:)
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Hare ~ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~
"Jackrabbit", "Lepus", and "Leveret" For other uses, see Hare (disambiguation), Jackrabbit (disambiguation), Lepus (disambiguation) and Leveret (disambiguation).
Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus. Hares are classified into the same family as rabbits and are of similar size, form, and diet as rabbits. They are generally herbivorous, long-eared, and fast runners, and typically live solitarily or in pairs. Hare species are native to Africa, Eurasia, North America, and the Japanese archipelago.
Five leporid species with "hare" in their common names are not considered true hares: the hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus), and four species known as red rock hares (comprising Pronolagus). Meanwhile, jackrabbits are hares rather than rabbits.
A hare less than one year old is called a leveret. The collective noun for a group of hares is a "drove"
Biology ~ Hares are swift animals: The European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) can run up to 56 km/h (35 mph). The five species of jackrabbit found in central and western North America are able to run at 64 km/h (40 mph), and can leap up to 3m (ten feet) at a time.
Normally a shy animal, the European brown hare changes its behavior in spring, when hares can be seen in daytime chasing one another; this appears to be competition between males to attain dominance (and hence more access to breeding females). During this spring frenzy, hares can be seen "boxing"; one hare striking another with its paws (probably the origin of the term "mad as a March hare"). For a long time, this had been thought to be intermale competition, but closer observation has revealed it is usually a female hitting a male to prevent copulation.
Differences from rabbits ~ Hares do not bear their young below ground in a burrow as do other leporids, but rather in a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass called a form. Young hares are adapted to the lack of physical protection, relative to that afforded by a burrow, by being born fully furred and with eyes open. They are hence precocial, and are able to fend for themselves soon after birth. By contrast, the related rabbits and cottontail rabbits are altricial, having young that are born blind and hairless.
All rabbits (except the cottontail rabbits) live underground in burrows or warrens, while hares (and cottontail rabbits) live in simple nests above the ground, and usually do not live in groups. Hares are generally larger than rabbits, with longer ears, and have black markings on their fur. Hares have not been domesticated, while rabbits are kept as house pets. The domestic pet known as the "Belgian hare" is a rabbit that has been selectively bred to resemble a hare.
Hares have jointed, or kinetic, skulls, unique among mammals. They have 48 chromosomes while rabbits have 44.
Going through all my photos I found one more I wanted to add of the Alpha Male. This Grouse seemed to be the most popular male on the lek. I got to see him copulate on there which very few of the other grouse did. I love their yellow eyebrows and purple neck pouches and elaborate feather detail. We need to do all we can to preserve prairie grasslands so we don't lose these threatened birds forever. Being this close to them as they danced on the lek was a magical and emotional experience that I will never forget.
This photo was achieved over 2 days and 6 hours in the blind the first day and 7 hours in the blind the next (from 4 am until 11 am) after a long hike and cold camping nights. However, it was all worth it to be part of the experience.