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This is the story of The Orange Youngster 31 March 2014 - 26 June 2015. She was the youngest sibling of The Magnificent Orange Female and Her (slightly lame much older) Mate at the time. I might well have photographed her earlier, but from this encounter beside Brewer Road near Alice Springs Prison I knew for sure I was photographing the same family and the same majestic Eagle youngster, hey!
Six days after the parents' copulation beside the road to Alice Springs Airport on 20 June 2015 I witnessed her father chase off the Orange Youngster like the clappers across Stuart Highway near the AS Welcome sign and saw him fly back alone. Time for her to make room for the new breeding. She flew to her independence from the big old dead tree near the Old Ghan Heritage Railway Line, Stuart Highway diagonally across the paddock from the Alice Springs South Welcome Sign.
The parents did not breed in 2014 and The Orange Youngster must have been nearly two years old by the time she was evicted.
She was a magnificent orange bird like her mum when she flew to her independence, hey.
The other thing was the parents successfully fledged two from their 2015 breeding and I got to photograph them alongside Santa Theresa Road in March 2016.
Another interesting thing was the Pale-golden Youngster's story (posted recently) and The Orange Youngster's story commenced the same day, same encounter, at Brewer Road. Both families were there part of a gathering of 11-15 WTEs photographed over two days. Hope you enjoy 😊
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Mad River Fish Hatchery, Arcata CA 4/5/13
eBird Checklist: ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13639730
English Name: Blue Tailed Damselfly
Scientific Name: Ischnura elegans (Odonata Zygoptera)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Demoiselles)
Sex: Male & Female
Age: Adult
Location: Almassora
Province: Castellón de La Plana
Country: Spain
Continent: Europe
Date: July 2011
AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105 mm f/2.8G IF-ED
In many places when the flowers start flowering, female 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.
Note: This is a different species than in the photograph below.
Photos: Jean
Capture in France (Dépt. Ain) on 14 VII 1987
This ♂ copulated with a ♀ of the same sp.
[see another ♀ of this sp. : www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7498066594/in/photolist...]
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For the keys of determination of this sp., see :
- www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7322520010/in/photostream
- www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/30607305582/in/photostream
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Keywords : Tenthredinidae - Tenthredininae
Operophtera brumata (Kleiner Frostspanner) copulation; wingless female on the right;
saw quite a few around our house at end of November!
Captures in France (dépt. Oise) on 31 VII 2005
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These ♂ and ♀ copulated together.
♂ : Length : about 6.3 mm.
♀ : Length : about 6.8 mm.
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- For the determination of the genus Athalia, see :
The comment on the Genus Athalia in :
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7966038416/in/photolist...
- For the determination of the species, see :
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7996272718/in/photostream
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Keyword : Allantinae
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
An arthropod orgy goes HORRIBLY WRONG!
The bodies pile up, the wings fade to sunset hues, flutter, and splinter to dust.
Beginning to realize that BOOKS regularly turn me on much more than MUSIC ever does.
Collingwood, April 2006
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There are always hoards of monkeys in and around the Virupaksha Temple. Sometimes they eat bananas, sometimes they copulate, so there is always something to photograph. EXIF not correct!
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River otters making babies at surf's edge, Admiralty Inlet shoreline. This pair spent much of the afternoon linked up, doing it both on the beach and in the water. Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA.
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Before they copulate, the male and the female damselfly spend a considerable amount of time in physical contact with one another. This is accomplished by the male clasping the female's thorax with terminal appendages at the end of his abdomen.
A quick grab shot at 624mm equivalent hand held.
♂ & ♀ Captured (on 08 IX 1986) at the same time & in the same place.
........... Although not copulating, I think that it is about the same species.
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sp. marginella (of Chevin 1983) = thompsoni C. , sp. succincta (of Chevin 1983) = marginella F.
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For the keys of determination of these sp., see :
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7322520010/in/photostream &
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7322564390/in/photostream &
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7379479482/in/photostream &
www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7379502352/in/photostream
See also sp. marginella : www.flickr.com/photos/d-jp-balmer/7463762972/in/photostream
Therefore, sp. marginella or thompsoni.
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1571 ♀
According to the keys above this ♀ is a thompsoni, because the teeth of his saw are projecting.
See my photo (whence the contrasts were strongly stressed) of very bad quality (the magnification of my binocular lens being of X40, it would be necessary X70) where I added awkwardly the drawing of the ventral outline of a part of the saw.
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1569 ♂
According to Chevin 1983, the punctuation of mesopleura is not easy to estimate.
The color of mandibles (ignored by Chevin) is difficult to use, except in the extreme cases :
- According to Taeger 1988 [Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Blattwespengattung Tenthredo L.... ] , the colors of the mandibles (apex excluded) are the following ones :
...... marginella : The base is always black.
...... thompsoni : The base is yellow, very rarely black (in that case they are stained with yellow towards the apex).
- The majority of captures, which we made, have mandibles stained with yellow, but neither on the base nor close to their apex.
... It is thus generally difficult to recognize the species.
We note for this 1569 ♂ :
- Its mandibles are, from their base, very mainly yellow.
- It was captured at the same time & in the same place that the thompsoni ♀.
- Its date of capture is late (marginella appearing earlier - cf. Chevin 1983).
For these reasons, this ♂ is a thompsoni.
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Finally : Tenthredo (T.) thompsoni