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Sometimes I even surprise myself when it comes to spotting things. I may not always know what I find but years of searching seems to have served me well. I found this pair of Hag Moths copulating on a leaf. I had to look at them a few times before I even realized what I was seeing. They looked very much like a bird dropping. Quite the highlight of my morning!
this pair of copulating tits fell out of a tree near me at the park gate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM02WcvlKn0
no wonder their song, which I had stopped to listen to, was so extraordinary
no birds were hurt in the making of this picture
Common Darters copulate in a perched position which takes about ten minutes. This can happen in quite exposed places and I have managed some good shots of that activity in the past but today I set myself the challenge to have a go at photographing them egg laying. A much trickier affair indeed as they do it on the wing.
The activity of laying eggs takes place in tandem and in flight. The male executes a downward movement of the abdomen lowering the female so her ovipositor makes contact with the water thus releasing the eggs. This activity is repeated many times, as shown below...pretty blurred buy hey...a first attempt!
Image taken near the Lassen Peak parking lot, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Shasta County, California
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Copy of the original found in Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum
Naples, Mann
Pan was a satyr - half man and half goat woodland god. In this sculpture, he and the goat exchange a tender gaze, but it is not depicting bestiality. Rather, it explores the nature of Roman myth. The original of this sculpture has been shocking visitors sinc it was first excavated from the villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, near Pompeii, in 1752. In the Naples Museum, it was kept with other erotic antiquities in the Gabinetto segreto (secret cabinet); that is, a special room with restricted access.
There's lots of these mining-bees active on a sandy footpath near our house. I was photographing the female nest building, when this male appeared.
I think by her reaction (with all her legs raised) that his advances were not welcomed. As she was actively nest building, she may already have mated. Whatever the situation, the male gave up and left after a few seconds!
This copulating pair of Helmeted Iguanas were surprisingly the only individuals seen on the entire trip. They were motionless along the side of a trail at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.
Camels copulating attracted quite a crowd. The male seemed to require some help getting into position.
A Blue Crested Lizard, also referred to as Indochinese Forest Lizard. In Thai, it known as king kah hua sih fah, meaning ‘blue-headed lizard’, which refers to its blue-green head, with a distinguishing whitish stripe, that extends to the upper part of its back.In addition, it has keeled dorsal scales and large transverse reddish-brown spots on the back. Outside the breeding season, it is variably brownish-grey with darker flank markings.
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The Magnificent Orange Female and Her (slightly lame older) Mate copulation above some safely removed carrion, at the T-junction of Roger Vale Drive and Maryvale Road (The Old South Road) 20 June 2015.
Their youngest sibling, The Orange Youngster, was on the ground underneath them, out of camera frame.
Their neighbors already have eggs, but this couple is on a later schedule. It takes >12 months to raise a chick, so King Penguins have a complicated cycle in which they succeed in rearing a chick 2 years out of 3 on South Georgia. These guys might be ones that have just finished feeding last year's chick and molting, whereas birds that didn't have a chick to feed in spring were able to get right to it.