Mating

Photograph by Sue Greeley US National Arboretum/USDA

Portait of turtle

Empis tessellata (a predatory fly) - copulating pair, the female devouring a small fly that the male has given her -- Portland, Dorset (disused quarry), 6 June 1967

(Scanned from cheap enprint that had been made from a Kodachrome X transparency)

Arima Valley; Trinidad

Bald Eagles copulating

交接中, During copulation,

ワモンダコ, Big Blue Octopus, Octopus cyanea,

諸磯埼灯台, MOROISOSAKI Lighthouse,

浜諸磯, Beach HAMAMOROISO,

三浦半島, MIURA Peninsula,

. #miura #nikon #Snorkeling

NIKON 1 J4 + 1 NIKKOR 18.5mm f/1.8 + WP-N3 + INON UWL-H100 28M67 type2 + INON D-2000

with copulating Stylops melittae male

Caught in the act on the railing of my front porch.

IMG_1197

08/11/2011

2 males wanting to copulate with female

交尾, Copulation,

コチドリ, Little ringed plover,

東京港野鳥公園,

TOKYO PORT WILD BIRD PARK,

202305

CANON EOS R10

CANON マウントアダプター EF-EOS R

SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary

SIGMA TELE CONVERTER TC-1401

Trio de "sale gueules" ! Aussi nommée punaise-guitare elle appartient à la famille des reduviidae (réduves) . Ses pattes antérieure "ravisseuses", comparables à celles des mantes, lui servent à capturer ses proies. Elle possède au bord de la tête et du corselet une sorte de gouttières dans lesquelles elle replie ses antennes au repos. Un grand merci à Alain Ramel pour l'identification. Je recommande vivement la visite de son site: [aramel.free.fr]

thought I better go for the rhyme rather than the alliteration...

Accouplement de hannetons de la Saint-Jean.

Copulation

1/500sec, ƒ/6.3, ISO 140, 450 mm, Ausschnitt 1:1, Seitenverhältnis 5:2

Toads copulating in the Lago Scuro (dark lake) in the "Parco dei cento laghi" (hundred lakes park)

Sent from Samsung Camera.

Taken in a thermocline at 13m. where the water has greater oxygen content than the warmer water above.

Seen in this image is a pair of copulating Sacred Kingfishers (Kotare), NZ…

Fragile Forktails mating in Green Bottom, WV.

Copulating Mississippi Kites.

St. David, AZ.

6-14-10.

Photo By: Ned Harris

These blister beetles were all over my mom's clematis vine.They will quickly eat every leaf on the plant.

Buzz and Ruby copulating on the railing of the Social Security Office building in Cambridge. Ruby was perched where she is now. Buzz was on the facing railing and inched his way south and then west along the railing before mounting his mate.

Laysan Albatross breeding pair at Kaena Point on Oahu.

EUROPEAN BROWN HARES BREEDING.

Copulating ladybirds on a runner bean plant in a city garden. Ladybird larvae are a major predator of the blackfly which attack runner beans so helping the gardener to get a better crop.

White-tailed male and Black-tailed female (Orthetrum albistylum, Orthetrum cancellatum). France; Moulismes 8/7/13

St. Louis

A few articles on cliff swallow behavior, particularly this extra pair copulation:

www.10000birds.com/why-do-cliff-swallows-flutter-their-wi...

thebirdersreport.com/wild-birds/bird-sightings/cliff-swal...

Two skinks share an intimate moment with the Flickrverse