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Poco le falta a esta hembra de Libellula depressa para realizar su primer vuelo. Terminar de abrir las alas a ambos lados del abdomen, que se sequen y se endurezcan del todo y ... lista.
Se retirará de la charca de donde emergió, madurará lejos de ella y solo regresará, a la misma o a cualquier otra, cuando esté preparada para la cópula y de inmediato la puesta.
Interesante lugar el que hemos visitado este inicio de temporada.
This female Libellula depressa is very close to making her first flight. Finish opening the wings on both sides of the abdomen, let them dry and harden completely and ... ready.
It will withdraw from the pond from which it emerged, will mature far from it and will only return, to it or to any other, when it is ready for copulation and immediately laying.
Interesting place that we have visited this beginning of the season.
Pair of firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus) copulating on a lichen (mostly Physcia adscendens) covered tree trunk.
Para kowali bezskrzydłych (Pyrrhocoris apterus) kopulująca na pokryteym porostami (głównie obrostem wzniesionym, Physcia adscendens) pniu drzewa.
These beetles are Rhagonycha fulva the "Common Red Soldier beetle". Although these predators use long grasses & Hogweed flowers as places to ambush prey, they also like to feed on nectar. They can often be seen mating on the flower heads of Umbellifers. These were conspicuous on Wild Carrot flowers growing along the estuary at Fethard-on-sea. This beautiful flower is known as Queen Anne's Lace in North America.
Happy Umbellifer Wednesday! HHD & HIHD! That is one happy flower :)
Photo 43/100 for the 100 Flowers 2018 Group. This year I'm challenging myself to photograph 100 different wildflower species found growing in the Irish countryside as listed on www.wildflowersofireland.net
Mélitée noirâtre : False Heath Fritillary : Melitaea diamina
photograhed in the Hautes Pyrenees... elevation 1400m.
Bembix rostrata ♂♂♀
Digger Wasp ..... males chasing a female
Kreiselwespe .... Männchen verfolgen ein Weibchen
Gravehvepse .... hanner forfølger en hun
Läppstekel ......... hanar jagar en hona
When females were digging their nest burrows, often a male, or sometimes up to four, were landing near her on the ground. The males then patiently waited until she flew up and followed her immediately for a wild chase.
Within half a minute the female usually returned to the nest and continued digging, the males occupied the very same spots again and the procedure restarted. Sometimes the chase ended in a copulation.
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
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If you like my pictures of insects in flight, you should visit my special website on insect flight:
Wenn Ihnen meine Bilder fliegender Insekten gefallen, besuchen Sie bitte meine Homepage speziell zu diesem Thema:
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PLEASE, NO AWARDS, no Copy and Paste Comments and no group icons like "your wonderful photo was seen in group xyz". They will all be deleted as soon as i see them.
BITTE KEINE AWARDS, kopierte Kommentare oder diese Gruppen-Icons wie "Ich habe Dein wunderbares Bild in Gruppe xyz gesehen". Die lösche ich sobald ich sie sehe.
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Finally got a pairing with a wild green male with my captive bred red female! She wouldn't pair with captive bred red males, so i put the cage outside and within 15 minutes the male appeared and paired with her - they were in copulation for 21 hours! I also eventually got a pairing of two red specimens, so all ended up well.
This was very typical of the mating that I watched for 15 minutes. The male is grabbing onto the females nose as he copulates with her.
One of several copulating pairs found on a warm sunny morning at Houghton Regis Quarry in Bedfordshire.
'Scuse the rather grubby office window... I don;t even clean mine at home, so not about to do these in a hurry!!
Main shot is a fly predating on another and in comments, next generation on the way!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
Phyllobius pomaceus est un charançon qui vit sur les orties. Recouvert de squamules vertes il est relativement peu visible mais, avec le temps, il a tendance à perdre ces squamules.
Phyllobius pomaceus Gyllenhal, 1834 = Curculio alneti Fabricius, 1792 non Schrank, 1781 = Curculio urticae De Geer, 1775 non Scopoli, 1763 = Phyllobius anomastus Tournier, 1877 = Phyllobius brevitalus C.G. Thomson, 1865 = Phyllobius fussi Schilsky, 19808 = Phyllobius gyllenhali Tournier, 1877 = Phyllobius serbicus Apfelbeck, 1916 = Phyllobius urticae (De Geer, 1775) = Phyllobius verecundus Boheman, 1843.
Nephila clavipes (Lat. clavis = key or hook; pedis = of or pertaining to a foot {genitive case of pēs}) is a species of golden orb-web spider. It lives in the warmer regions of the Americas. The large size and bright colours of the species make it distinctive. The female is much larger than the male.
In the United States, it ranges throughout the coastal southeast and inland, from North Carolina to Texas. Its distribution in many regions seems localized, and it may be completely absent (or just hard to find) over wide areas. Conversely, in some arboreal or swampy nooks, adults and their webs can be found in large concentrations, especially near the coast. Golden orb-weavers are especially numerous in the time after summer and before fall in the south-eastern and southern U.S. This species is widespread — and often common — in large parts of Central America and warmer regions of South America.
The web of a mature female can reach one meter in width, the yellow threads appearing as a rich gold in sunlight. Males come into the female's web for copulating. After mating the female spins an egg sac on a tree, laying hundreds of eggs in one sac. While it is venomous to humans, it will only bite if pinched. The bite is usually relatively harmless and only leads to slight redness and localized pain.
The silk of N. clavipes has recently been used to help in mammalian neuronal regeneration. In vitro experiments showed that a single thread of silk can lead a severed neuron through the body to the site it was severed from. With a tensile strength of 4×109 N/m2, it exceeds that of steel by a factor of six. It is not recognized by the immune system.
Natural History Museum. Spider Pavilion. Los Angeles. California.
Fourth in my bison rut seties.
I've always mistakenly assumed that the flehmen response was performed exclusively by males. Wrong!
According to ScienceDirect.com, while bulls demonstrate typical flehmen reactions when tending a cow, cows also exhibit flehmen toward one another, and it has been suggested that they use this behavior to stimulate the onset of estrus and synchronize the timing of copulation.
This photo marks the first time I've witnessed a female showing the flehmen response.
Additional notes:
That's not bull with extra legs...another young bull is standing behind him. The cow is by far the fattest one we observed during our three day with the bison herd. She looks like she skipped the nine-month + gestation period and is already about to give birth.
Lucky timing to get the bull bellowing and cow performing the flehmen at the same time.
Hipparchia fidia = Pseudotergumia fidia
Festón blanco - sátiro rayado.
No menos sorprendente fue encontrar a la Hipparchia (Pseudotergumia) fidia en cópula y sobre las acículas de un pino. Nada fácil localizarlas en estos menesteres.
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Striped grayling
No less surprising was the discovery of the Hipparchia (Pseudotergumia) fidia in copulation and on the needles of a pine tree. It is not easy to locate them in this way.
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Non moins surprenante fut la découverte de la fidia Hipparchia (Pseudotergumia) en copulation et sur les aiguilles d'un pin. Il n'est pas facile de les localiser de cette manière.
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Envergure : 40 à 48mm
Vole de mars à début juillet en une génération.
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Cópula de Ischnura graellssi en Pinoso (Alicante).
Ambos ejemplares presentan parásitos en algunas partes de su cuerpo.
Copulation of Ischnura graellssi in Pinoso (Alicante).
Both specimens have parasites in some parts of their body.
Dicen los libros que los machos jóvenes no están preparados para copular y el que vemos es joven, prácticamente sin pruinar.
Pudiera ser que el término "joven" es algo ambiguo y no se ajusta totalmente a la coloración. Esto o que los machos de esta especie tienen un comportamiento algo raro como pudimos ver en la imagen de ayer con la hembra de O. cancellatum.
Fotograma completo adaptado a formato 4x3
En la Fuente del Chopo. Villena (Alicante) España
The books say that young males are not ready to copulate and the one we see is young, practically unprincipled.
It could be that the term "young" is somewhat ambiguous and does not fully match the coloration. This or that the males of this species have a somewhat strange behavior as we could see in yesterday's image with the female of O. cancellatum.
Full frame adapted to 4x3 format
At the Chopo Fountain. Villena (Alicante) Spain
A pair of Tree Swallows that I photographed right after copulation. I wasn't fast enough for the act. Alta Sierra Golf Course, Nevada County, California on 25 April 2017.
After a disappointing August, summer has decided to arrive at last. These two migrant hawkers were making the most of the opportunity!
I found five of these Poplar Hawk Moths in my garden, all in the same area, they are well camouflaged. These two stayed copulated all day yesterday, today the had all disappeared
Cantaban Los Inhumanos aquello de "Qué difícil es hacer el amor en un Simca 1000". No me imagino lo que cantarían si tuvieran que hacerlo en el aire o agarrados a una rama. Algo que para los protagonistas de la foto no parece resultar ningún problema. He de decir que a mí, aparte de lo del Simca 1000 :), lo que verdaderamente me resulta difícil es fotografiar a esta especie durante la cópula y además hacerlo de forma más o menos decente. Pero la paciencia y la perseverancia a veces dan su fruto. (_AAA0517-1)
The Inhumans sang that of "How difficult it is to make love in a Simca 1000". I can't imagine what they would sing if they had to do it in the air or holding onto a branch. Something that for the protagonists of the photo does not seem to be a problem. I have to say that for me, apart from the Simca 1000 :), what is really difficult for me is to photograph this species during copulation and also do it in a more or less decent way. But patience and perseverance sometimes pay off.
Este año no hemos encontrado menos actividad de odonatos en este bello rincón de la Canal de Navarrés, sin embrago pude fotografiar la cópula de P. acutipennis que no tenía registrada.
Fotograma recortado un 6%.
En los Charcos del río Grande. Quesa (Valencia) España
This year we have not found less activity of odonatos in this beautiful corner of the Navarrés Channel, however I could photograph the copulation of P. acutipennis that I had not registered.
Frame cut by 6%.
In the Puddles of the Rio Grande. Quesa (Valencia) Spain
France; Coulonges (86) 19/10/21. After watching over several days it was still difficult to nail the male/female when not copulating.
NEW JERSEY 2017 (Year End) BALD EAGLE PROJECT REPORT
ANOTHER PRODUCTIVE YEAR FOR NJ’S EAGLES
by Larissa Smith, CWF Wildlife Biologist
The Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ in partnership with the NJ Endangered and Nongame Species Program has released the 2017 NJ Bald Eagle Project Report. In 2017, 178 eagle nests were monitored during the nesting season. Of these nests 153 were active (with eggs) and 25 were territorial or housekeeping pairs. One hundred and ninety young were fledged.
In 2017 the number of active nests was three more than in 2016, but the number young fledged decreased by 27 from a record high of 216 fledged in 2016. The productivity rate this season of 1.25 young/active nest is still above the required range of 0.0 to 1.1 for population maintenance. Productivity could be lower this season for many reasons including weather, predation and disturbance to the nesting area. In 2017 nest monitors reported several instances of “intruder” eagles at nests which did disrupt the nesting attempts of several pairs. One of these “eagle dramas” unfolded at the Duke Farms eagle cam watched by millions of people. An intruder female attempted to replace the current female. This harassment interrupted the pairs bonding and copulation and no eggs were laid.
This year’s report includes a section on Resightings of banded eagles. Resightings of NJ (green) banded eagles have increased over the years, as well as eagles seen in NJ that were banded in other states. These resightings are important, as they help us to understand eagle movements during the years between fledging and settling into a territory, as well as adult birds at a nest site.
For more info: www.conservewildlifenj.org/blog/2017/12/06/new-jersey-201...
New Jersey Bald Eagle Project Report | 2017 may be downloaded here: www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/pdf/eglrpt17.pdf
L'azuré de l'ajonc : Silver-studded Blue : Plebejus argus
photograhed in the Hautes Pyrenees... elevation 1400m.
Very pleased to find this copulating pair yesterday at the old railway station in Helmdon , Northants.
Esta pareja de Ischnura elegans realizó una postura un poco extraña para conseguir la cópula.
El macho no consiguió agarrarla por el pronoto, pero la hermbra si se aferró al abdomen del macho.
This pair of Ischnura elegans performed a somewhat strange posture to achieve copulation.
The male failed to grab her by the pronotum, but the female did cling to the male's abdomen.
France; Brenne, Cherine 15/1/19. Copulation! A group of twelve here since mid-November must give hope to future breeding in the Brenne.
Monsieur - à l'arrière plan, dans le bokeh - est beaucoup plus petit que Madame et, contrairement à Monsieur Mante Religieuse, il a son petit secret pour échapper à la voracité de Madame après l'accouplement: "il abandonne volontairement dans 80 % des cas son appareil copulateur, ce qui diminue les chances d'un rival de féconder la même femelle et augmente ses chances de la fuir et de survivre après l'accouplement" (d'après wikipedia)
31/07/22: Madame est encore plus grosse et Monsieur n'est plus sur la toile: dévoré ou échappé?
Monsieur - in the background, in the bokeh - is much smaller than Madame and, unlike Monsieur Praying Mantis, he has his little secret to escape Madame’s voracity after mating: "In 80% of cases, he voluntarily abandons his copulator, which reduces the chances of a rival fertilizing the same female and increases its chances of escaping and surviving after mating" (from wikipedia)...
07/31/22: Madam is even fatter and Monsieur is no longer on the web: devoured or escaped?
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Noms vernaculaires: Épeire fasciée, Épeire frelon, Argiope frelon, Argiope rayée ou Argiope fasciée
Wasp spider / Wespenspinne / araña tigre o araña avispa / ragno vespa, ragno tigre, epeira fasciata, ragno zebra o argiope fasciata
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Le faucon crécerelle (Falco tinnunculus) est le rapace diurne le plus commun de nos campagnes. Fin février, le couple reprend possession du site de reproduction qui peut être une paroi rocheuse ou un ancien nid de corvidés. Mais il affectionne aussi les cavités des murs des vieilles bâtisses. La compétition est parfois rude car le couple doit exclure les intrus … les jeunes de l’année passée ou encore des pigeons ! Chaque matin, pendant plusieurs jours, le couple se retrouve sur le toit le temps de se toiletter et s’accoupler … histoire de consolider les liens et préparer la future reproduction !