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It was lovely watching these ephemeral and diminutive marvels and their spring time heart-shaped couplings and activity. Those colours!
I believe these are Aurora bluetails (Ischnura aurora).
Each damsel just 30 mm in length.
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Common red soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) copulating on some blooming umbellifer.
Zmieki żółte (Rhagonycha fulva) kopulujące na jakimś kwitnącym baldaszkowatym.
Le mâle possède lui des ailes normalement développées.
Prionolabis hospes (Egger, 1863) = Limnobia platyptera Macquart, 1834 = Limnophila hospes Egger, 1863.
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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.
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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.
A pair of copulating Orange Tips photographed against a backdrop of Cuckoo flowers in a local meadow this afternoon.
The Bee flies found it handy to sit on the spent flowers of Pig face plant Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum for copulation.
Photo: Fred
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.
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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,
Pair of harlequin ladybeetles (Harmonia axyridis) copulating on a leaf.
Para biedronek azjatyckich (Harmonia axyridis) spółkujących na liściu.
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.
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.
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.
This pair of Danaus Chrysippus (Tiger Butterfly), the first one we photographed this year, made it very difficult for us to get it. It took a tremendous amount of scratching to get to this shot and they didn't give me any other option to get closer or change angle. A moment later they flew to the other side of the wall of vegetation that we had crossed with great difficulty to get to them and it was impossible to see them again. Despite everything I think the result is quite good. We will try again (see larger image)
Esta pareja de Danaus Chrysippus (Mariposa Tigre), la primera que fotografiamos este año, nos lo puso muy difícil para conseguirlo. Costó un montón tremendo de arañazos llegar hasta esta toma y no me dieron ninguna opción más de acercarme o cambiar de ángulo. Un momento después volaron al otro lado de la muralla de vegetación que habíamos atravesado con suma dificultad para llegar a ellos y fue imposible volver a verlos. A pesar de todo creo que el resultado es bastante bueno. Volveremos a intentarlo (ver en grande)
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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.
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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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.
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Here the male is mate guarding, staying with the female either before or after copulation to guard her from other males. I love to watch these pairs of wasps, as their ability to fly together, run across plants together, and otherwise remain paired but still looking graceful, reminds me of a gentle dance.
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.
Montezuma Oropendolas (Psarocolius montezuma)are highly dimorphic in size; males may be up twice the weight of females. This species is polygynous, and dominant 'alpha' males perform most copulations at a colony (although subordinate males apparently are able to copulate with some females, presumably away from the colony and the presence of the alpha male). They are nests colonially, in colonies of up to 130 nests, often in isolated large trees; such a setting makes the clusters large, hanging, basket-like nests even more conspicuous. The loud, gurgling song of the male is given as the male bows forward, cocking the tail and spreading the wings (Birds of the world).