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This is a female raspy cricket. The gluey stuff is the nuptial gift given by the copulated male. It contains sperms that fertilise the female but also provide protein source for the female to produce more eggs.
Vermillion flycatcher - Male - Pyrocephalus rubinus. A spectacular and distinctive flycatcher, the bright red Vermilion Flycatcher inhabits riparian areas and scrub in the southwestern United States and southward. It perches conspicuously, making periodic flights to nab insect prey. The breeding male spends about 90 percent of the day perched. He often seeks to initiate copulation by delivering a butterfly or other showy insect to the female.
Mute Swan / cygnus olor. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 03/02/21.
In this image the pair were just about to copulate.
The cob had paddled himself alongside his mate, facing in the opposite direction to her. Next, he had turned so that he was at a ninety degree angle to her, then clambered onto her back. (He had almost achieved the manoeuvre in this image.)
In preparation for mating, the pen sat lower in the water, spread her wings outwards and paddled to maintain position and balance. At this stage note she voluntarily submerged her head underwater.
Once on her back, the cob grasped feathers at the back of her neck and pushed downwards so she became completely submerged when he started copulation. She continued to paddle.
Always the same behavior after copulation. The Hen seems to cleanse herself and then display and the Drake always appears to sulk away as if he just did something bad. See comments for previous pic in series.
Mating in November? Not sure whether they are just pair bonding or copulation will result in eggs being laid. Maybe the mild weather has thrown them out and this is just another effect of global warming.
Pair of tree sparrows (Passer montanus) copulating on a branch. One might think it's too late for yet another brood, but they're not going to stop!
Para mazurków (Passer montanus) kopulujących na gałęzi. Mogłoby się wydawać, że jest za późno na kolejny lęg, ale one nie przestają!
Often found early in the year around February.
While some moths suck nectar, others don't eat at all. The adult Luna moth doesn't even have a mouth. After it emerges from its cocoon, it lives for a few weeks. Its sole mission in life? To mate and lay eggs.
A male moth can smell a female more many miles away. Though they lack noses, they detect odor molecules using their antennae instead.
Moths: The next superfood? In some parts of the world, moths are a major food source for people. More than 90 percent of people in some African countries eat moth and butterfly caterpillars, according to a 2004 survey by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Caterpillars are packed with protein and healthy fats, and research shows that 100 grams of these insects provides more than 100 percent of the daily requirement of some vital minerals, such as potassium, calcium, zinc and iron.
"... and these pigeons are up to no good... eating food of the street, scaring our nestlings, copulating, leaving garbage everywhere... [They're] what's destroying the neighborhood." - A local sparrow
Copulation among lions is a highly repetitive affair - a pair may mate two or three times an hour for several days.
Series of 8 No 2
Today for the first time we found that Hullia sp. were grasping the fronds of grass trees when copulating.
Photo: Jean
Southern Crested Caracara female inverted head display, moments before copulation. This is a unique display in the
world of bird behaviour, so far as I know.
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing, I think I love you!
(Just a couple of flies, doin' the wild thing)
Golden Eagles( Aquila chrysaetos). 14.3..2016, Finland.
Just as an accident noticed golden eagle on the top of the huge pine. Lifted my camera towards it and saw another eagle flying towards it. About 30 seconds they sat side by side there. Then they copulated 13 seconds (checked from my pics exifs). After 30 seconds they flew away.....
Cannot complain from bad view. I`d rather would be front, but I cannot complain from once-in-a-lifetime chance....
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Pinal Co., AZ - I was photographing this female with prey when there was a surprise visit from the male.
Copulating Silver Studded Blues (female on the left), one of nine pairs found at Prees Heath yesterday.
Scathophaga spec., copula (Diptera, Scathophagidae)
Dung Flies ..... pair in flight
Dungfliegen .. fliegendes Paar
Møgfluer ........ flyvende par
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
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Rhagonycha fulva (Scopoli, 1763) = Cantharis fulva Scopoli, 1763 = Cicindela maculata Fourcroy, 1785 = Rhagonycha cailloli Chobaut, 1914 = Rhagonycha curtithorax Pic, 1920 = Rhagonycha delahoni Schilsky, 1908 = Rhagonycha inapicalis Fiori, 1914 = Rhagonycha terminalis Redtenbacher, 1849 = Telephorus bimaculata De Geer, 1774 = Telephorus melanura Olivier, 1790 = Telephorus usta Gemminger, 1870, le téléphore fauve.
In many places when the flowers start flowering, female TIPHIIDAE/THYNNIDAE wasps climb onto small shrubs or wander over open ground, waiting for a male to come and copulate. During copulation, the males take the females to flowers where they collect nectar and pass it to the female. She curls her body around the drop of nectar and drinks while the male collects more nectar on many different flowers.
Females usually live on the ground or in the leaves of trees looking for and devouring small insects.
Photos: Jean