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On 20 June 2015 I came across The Magnificent Orange Female, her mate and their youngest sibling at some kangaroo carrion opposite the Roger Vale Drive and Old South Road "T" junction. The adult female was in a tree over the carrion with her (slightly lame) mate, while their youngest sibling, The Orange Youngster, was on the ground a little to the side. I had encountered and photographed this local family of Wedge-tailed Eagles (Aquila audax) on a number of previous occasions at various locations around the Alice Springs District. This time, with the carrion removed a safe distance from the sometimes busy road to Alice Springs Airport, something felt special and different. The adult male left the female and circled to approach the carrion from along the Old South Road. I would normally have tried to get closer to the action to photograph them, but something this day told me not to. It was totally amazing when, after he had eaten, the adult male flew up to join the Magnificent Orange Female where she was waiting in the tree. After some suggestive looking into the eyes of one another, the female moved to the male and the copulation took place in front of the rolling camera. It was a totally amazing thing to happen!
I think such footage of wild Wedge-tailed Eagles is probably quite rare, as the mating didn't occur around a nest territory, but rather further afield in a home-range area shared from time to time with other local Wedge-tailed Eagle families and particularly by their youngsters.
I am wondering whether ritual courting also happens outside breeding territories and that settling down to breeding at nest sites happens after, rather than before, courting and mating (copulation)?
Well you have to admit it's a neat trick!
We spent a wonderful afternoon this week watching Broad bodied Chasers at a local wildlife reserve.
The males compete to control the ponds where mating takes place, often sparring in mid air with rivals for minutes at a time. At one stage we watched up to five males competing for control of one small pond!
When a female arrives on the scene, the dominant male will fly to her and they will fly together attached for several seconds. The male will then attempt to shepherd her to the margins of the pond, where she will oviposite while he hovers above her. We watched one of the males manage to mate with three females in little over a minute and then watched as he guarded all three simultaneously ovipositing.
Phantom Crane Fly (Bittacomorpha clavipes) in copula
TEXAS: Jasper Co.
stream in Angelina National Forest
Jasper, 18 mi NW
11-Jun-2015
J.C. Abbott #2744 & K.K. Abbott
Rhynchocinetes sp.
It is suggested that large males of some Rhynchocinetes sp. possess long claw arms for mate guarding and copulation.
With a kinky mirror too....
At TED 2005, Dr. Tatiana taught me what I needed to know about insect sex, penis morphology, and the evolution of sexual deviance. From her Amazon book review:
"You'll learn why one stick-insect copulation lasts for 10 weeks (to prevent other males from gaining access to the fertile female) and why the black-winged damselfly's penis has bristles (to scrape out his rival's sperm). You'll learn that male and female orangutans masturbate with sex toys fashioned from leaves and twigs, that slugs are hermaphrodites with penises on their heads, and that females in more than 80 species eat their lovers before, during, or after sex. You'll also ponder human sexuality when you learn that "monogamy is one of the most deviant behaviors in biology" (although jackdaws, chinstrap penguins, California mice, and some termites swear by it) and "natural selection, it seems, often smiles on strumpets."
Photo: On Gordon’s Pond. Gordon Moore's pond, that is. The unusual lighting makes it look like an X-ray.
Early start this morning I had the privilege of watching a pair of Kingfisher’s copulating at a local nest site , then I managed a quick grab shot of the Female Kingfisher enjoying a small perch for breakfast presented the male.
Blister beetles (I think?) mating. Blister beetles are beetles (Coleoptera) of the family Meloidae, so called for their defensive secretion of a blistering agent, cantharidin. There are approximately 7,500 known species worldwide. Many are conspicuous and some aposematically colored, announcing their toxicity to would-be predators. Cantharidin is a poisonous chemical that causes blistering of the skin. Cantharidin is used medically to remove warts[2] and is collected for this purpose from species of the genera Mylabris and Lytta, especially Lytta vesicatoria, better known as "Spanish fly".
Blister beetles are hypermetamorphic, going through several larval stages, the first of which is typically a mobile triungulin. The larvae are insectivorous, mainly attacking bees, though a few feed on grasshopper eggs; while sometimes considered parasitoids, it appears that in general, the meloid larva consumes the immature host along with its provisions, and can often survive on the provisions alone, thus they are not obligatory parasitoids but rather food parasites that are facultatively parasitoid, or simply predatory. The adults sometimes feed on flowers and leaves of plants of such diverse families like Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae, Fabaceae, and Solanaceae.
Spring Plumage
Courtship has many rituals,
painting pigments on,
for some.
Like so many things,
we mimic nature.
When time,
to copulate comes.
All dressed up,
and no one around,
so she struts around.
Soon there are many,
then just one.
The breeding system of the bronze-winged jacana leads to intense sperm competition, as female jacanas copulate with multiple males prior to laying their clutch. Before laying the clutch, the female would spend more time with the specific male that would receive the clutch (called the “receiver”). Studies have also shown that receivers gain more copulations than non-receivers. Since the receivers provide all of the parental care, females should, in theory, comply with male demands for copulations to convince them of their paternity, so they will care for the clutch. Receivers have been observed to destroy clutches in which they only had a low share of the paternity. Although females offer copulations to non-receiver males in order to maintain their presence in her harem, these copulations are less important than copulations to assure the receivers of their paternity. The cost of clutches being destroyed by receivers is much higher than losing males from her harem.
Since the males have no individual control over the maximum number of their copulations, the males in polyandrous harems vie for the female’s attention through a call, called a “yell,” to attract her and gain sexual access. It has been shown that male jacanas in larger harems yelled at higher rates during the periods of time when all copulations took place, while males that already received their clutch or were involved in chick care yelled at lower and rates. These yells attracted the female bronze-winged Jacana when she is far from the yeller. A study showed that females seem to use yells to assess male quality, as the males that yelled at the highest rates were able to receive the greatest number of copulations Females may also respond to the yells of males in their territory since they could attract other females who could intrude on their territory
Mute Swan / cygnus olor. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 03/02/21.
'COPULATION.' (1)
A Mute Swan pair at my local lake, captured at the start of copulation.
The cob was holding on to her with his feet and had grasped her neck with his beak. She sat low in the water when he mounted her and now, with his weight and downward force on her head, you can see she is completely submerged. Both of them had flexed their wings outwards, (the pen more so than the cob), to maintain their balance. During this, the pen paddled forwards and you can see the water turbulence around them ... I presume this is linked to balancing as well.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Taken in ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire. My first visit and lots to see and photograph.
There are two distinct habitat's Woodland and a reasonable sixed meadow, bow were explored.
As you can see during filming it got really windy so I had to stop.
At first this shot of an adult male osprey looks like he is attacking the female. However as you see in the shot below he landed on her back to copulate!
The two copulating ambush bugs at the upper left are feeding on the motionless bee. The lower right bug has his beak extended and is feeding on the head of the bee. The amber tongue of the bee is sticking out in front of the bug's extended beak. This is a sign of suffocation caused by ambush bug neurotoxins. The poison actually liquifies the contents of the prey so it can be slurped up. This is a dirty business and this is nature - predator and prey.
copulation at Spring ( NL )
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Summer is insect season. Here are three dozen pairs of insects making other insects! (Some pairs are mate guarding, not copulating. In some insects, the male stays with the female until she lays her eggs to keep other males away.) Links to individual photos follow:
1. damselfly heart, 2. mating monarchs, 3. mating ambush bugs, 4. tiger bee flies: repeating designs, 5. pair of candy-striped leafhoppers, 6. mating pearl crescent butterflies, 7. mating snipe flies, 8. mating Halloween pennants, 9. Japanese beetles, 10. "dancing" narrow-waisted wasps: bees and wasps of late summer, 11. mating borer moths, 12. Ailanthus webworm moths mating, 13. mating longhorn milkweed beetles, 14. mating orange assassin bugs, 15. mating spicebush swallowtails, 16. mating cabbage whites, 17. mating weevils, 18. mating cicadas, 19. mating white moths, 20. mating leafhoppers, 21. mating yellow-collared scape moths, 22. mating beetles, 23. mating craneflies, 24. mating ladybugs, 25. mating thorn bugs, 26. mating flower flies, 27. green darner dragonflies: ovipositing pair, 28. mating beetles, 29. beetles mating, 30. mating locust borers on goldenrod, 31. mating beetles, 32. mating stilt-legged flies, 33. mating thistle tortoise beetles, 34. mating milkweed bugs on swamp milkweed, 35. multi-tasking, 36. pair of mantises with a second male watching for a chance: Three is a crowd.
All of these shots and some additional ones in following album: www.flickr.com/photos/cherylmolin/albums/72157719833706864 (Some shots couldn't be made to fit in a square format.)
Blotched blue
Often we would see the butterflies 'Hill Topping' an the rises in the National Park.
Hill Topping is where male insects gather together for a Lek hoping a female will come and join them for copulation.
Photo: Fred
A feast of Marbles Whites today at one of my local patch sites in Northwest Leicestershire.
They were everywhere 100's of them,
I don't have any shots of mating so when I saw a pair I concentrated on them ignoring other shots, returning to them when I had enough shots.
Walking up to the lower sunny banks still surrounded by MW's and even more on the sunny bank where I spotted another mating pair so I had the opportunity to take my time having shots as already in the can. I even had time for a 4K video.
So as I’ve posted yesterday, I saw these mantises a couple of days ago hanging out in front of my front door. And yesterday I saw them mating. As I was shooting them, a friend of mine told me the story of mantis’ procreation and decapitation. Intrigued by the story, I waited to see what happen. I did a little research while waiting. I saw a video of African mantises going at it and then female decapitated the male during sex. First she ate his eyes followed by his whole head. It was pretty gross but I wanted to get a front row seat when it happens. 30 minutes went by and they didn’t move a millimeter. Based on the research I did the duration of their copulation could range from few minutes to few hours. I was so hungry. Couldn’t wait for few hours, I reluctantly went for brunch hoping they would still be there when I come back. I came home surprised to see them still in the same spot, same position. 15-30 mins after, the female turned her head toward the male. Their antennas moving rapidly. The male then made a dash immediately away from the female. Seconds later, he flew to the next bush. He just escaped death. I’m sorry to say I was a little disappointed. I was hoping to capture a cruel yet natural cycle of life. I hope that’s not too cruel for me to say.
Note: These mantises were actually upside down, but I rotated the image so you don't have to turn your head upside down. :)
Breeding:
Lions have very high copulation rates. The female may mate approximately every 15 minutes when she is in heat for three days and nights without sleeping, and sometimes with five different males. This often leads to physical exhaustion of males when only a one or two are involved.
The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. The commonly used term African lion collectively denotes the several subspecies in Africa.
Lions are the only cats that live in groups, which are called prides. Prides are family units that may include up to three males, a dozen or so females, and their young. All of a pride's lionesses are related, and female cubs typically stay with the group as they age. Young males eventually leave and establish their own prides by taking over a group headed by another male.
Lion Prides and Hunting:
Only male lions boast manes, the impressive fringe of long hair that encircles their heads. Males defend the pride's territory, which may include some 100 square miles (259 square kilometers) of grasslands, scrub, or open woodlands. These intimidating animals mark the area with urine, roar menacingly to warn intruders, and chase off animals that encroach on their turf.
Female lions are the pride's primary hunters. They often work together to prey upon antelopes, zebras, wildebeest, and other large animals of the open grasslands. Many of these animals are faster than lions, so teamwork pays off.
After the hunt, the group effort often degenerates to squabbling over the sharing of the kill, with cubs at the bottom of the pecking order. Young lions do not help to hunt until they are about a year old. Lions will hunt alone if the opportunity presents itself, and they also steal kills from hyenas or wild dogs.