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These lizards change color but in this case, the male is green and the female brown.
Royal Palm Beach Pines Natural Area, Palm Beach County, FL, USA
bluet spec. (enallagma spec.), male, four seasons nature preserve, bloomfield, walworth county, wi, 140620
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!
The first time you take such a photo you think you are the only one you thought to do it, but when you enter to flickr you get a surprise.
The video shows a pair of Mississippi Kites coplulating near Monticello Park in Alexandria. The first part shows the copulation in real time, and the second part shows the same footage in slow motion.
A mating pair of Giant asian mantis, Hierodula sp.(?). Selangor, Malaysia.
More mantids: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/03/mantis.html
More bug porn: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2011/01/bugs-porn.html
Red fox pair copulating in open field on a cool, rainy January day. They remained together for a few minutes before separating and departing.
bluet spec. (enallagma spec.), male, four seasons nature preserve, bloomfield, walworth county, wi, 140620
The harlequin ladybird copulating.
This is an invasive species in Europe and America. It has been spreading very rapidly since the end of the 90ies in Europe where it has been used as biocontrol agent. It could potenatially cause important biodiversity (competition and predation of other aphid predators) and economic (ea vineyards, aggregation in houses,...) problems.
It has been called "the most invasive ladybird on earth".
Females will copulate with an average of ten males during the mating season, though only about one third of the mountings will lead to ejaculation. Though pregnancies only occur during the mating season, heterosexual relations go on year-round.
After a gestation period of 173 days, females bear only one baby, which weighs about 500 g at birth. This macaque has an average lifespan of 30 years.
Mating display of sunbird
Display: www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2228095699
Actual coital sequence:
1 Female positioned herself and started fluttering www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2228083267/
2 With the fluttering she leaned forward
www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2228875066
3 The male which was displaying above and infront of her hovered in and mounted
www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2228083025
4 Very briefly there was very close contact, the assumption is that penetration had occurred www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2228082883
5 Before we realised it he was already dismounting www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2228874740
6 and hovered away - this sequence was repeated twice more in quick succession before she turned away (above)
7 .. stopped the fluttering motion, apparently satisfied www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2228874468
Apologies if this seems rather explicit
Purple-throated Sunbird -pair
Leptocoma sperata
Central catchment area, Singapore
28th. January 2008
(Copulating) Red-shouldered Hawks (Buteo lineatus extimus -- Family: Accipitridae). Along Turner River Rd. in the Big Cypress National Preserve, Collier Co., Florida 01/31/2007
2008 AHS Spring Field Trip, Mount Magazine State Park and Surrounding Areas, Logan and Yell Counties, Arkansas, USA
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Breeding Pair Series: 1 of 36.
This is pretty close to what I saw under this ledge as I came around the curve of the steep, rocky slope.
The movement of black and white banding--fuzzy from the distance I was at--caught my eye first. I *wanted* to think WDR, but wouldn't they likely be coiled on top of their tails when first spotted?
As I took about four quick but careful steps forward, I knew it was a WDR! I think I called out "ATROX!!!" immediately at that point to Brad and Van who were checking different levels of the slope above me.
My next thought was that the movement was because I had already been spotted! I feared the WDR was on the verge of darting back into a crevice and I was still quite a distance from it. It crossed my mind that I would miss pictures, that Brad and Van would miss seeing it...that I would get only a brief, tantalizing glimpse of a ghost before it disappeared.
Then my eyes came into better focus and I realized that it was a "mass" of snakes! I had fleeting visions of a mass den site, like one might find out West...but wait...
No, not just a "mass"...a PAIR!
This all transpired in the span of about 20 seconds. Things go kind of fuzzy for a bit after that. I think I just kind of started giving a weak-voiced play-by-play to Brad and Van as they made their way down the hill. I wished they could "jump into my head" and witness the spectacle...I still didn't think it was going to last long.
Soon enough, however, we had all three settled onto a rock ledge about 15m away that had a good vantage point. We were pretty certain the male was aware of our presence, but he seemed much more interested in "other matters". So, we simply watched, and talked, and collected a bit of data for several minutes.
We noted at least 4-6 definite copulation attempts and 100s of chin thrusts by the male as he crawled all over and around the female. The female seemed fairly receptive, but we are uncertain as to whether any actual copulation took place.
The body of the female ladybird prepares by readying the unfertilized eggs, when it is in heat and is ready to copulate. The male ladybird pursues her, rides on the female's back and when she is receptive, he enters her and fertilizes the already formed eggs that are present within her body. For those who study biology: please note that the reproductive organs of this insect is very similar to the mammalian sexual organs.
After the fertilization is complete, she runs around the plant checking the underparts of each leaf carefully and lays her fertilized eggs. The eggs emerge as thick and translucent jelly that is yellowish brown in color that dries and forms the thin yet strong shell when they come into contact with air.
In order to ensure the survival of her babies, who would not have their doting parents around to protect them, she lays the eggs in as many leaves as possible, either one or two eggs per leaf and never more than two. She also lays her eggs under the petal of the flowers.
Please watch it in full-screen and also have the speakers on to enjoy the AV (Piano music courtesy: Old music archives).