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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.
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.
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
Cantaban Los Inhumanos aquello de "Qué difÃcil es hacer el amor en un Simca 1000". No me imagino lo que cantarÃan 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 mÃ, aparte de lo del Simca 1000 :), lo que verdaderamente me resulta difÃcil 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.
A goanna is any one of several species of lizard of the genus Varanus found in Australia and Southeast Asia. The sand goanna (Varanus gouldii), also known as Gould's monitor, is a reptile that excavates large burrows for shelter. It inhabits a vast range throughout Australia, reaching an average length of 140 cm (4.6 ft) and weighing as much as 6 kg (13 lb). Adult female Gould's goanna average two-thirds the body length and only one-third the mass of adult males. When breeding occurs, the male goanna locates the burrow of a female and builds a burrow of his own a few meters away. Over several days the male and female spend an increasing amount of time together. Eventually, they begin to copulate. They continue to mate over and over again for several days. During this period of intense breeding activity, the pair may share the same burrow. After many days the intensity of copulation declines and the goannas separate and forage independently. When it is time to lay the eggs, the female locates an active termite mound. She digs a tunnel towards the center of the mound 50 to 60 cm deep. At the end of the tunnel she digs a large cavity. The female then sits on the top of the mound and lays 10 to 17 eggs into the tunnel. Afterwards she refills the tunnel, and the termites reconstruct the mound around the goanna eggs. The termites regulate the temperature and humidity, so this is an excellent place for development of the eggs. Adult monitors will prey on mice, other small mammals, small birds, crustaceans, scorpions, large insects, small lizard species, snakes, amphibians, eggs, and carrion.
Mélitée noirâtre : False Heath Fritillary : Melitaea diamina
photograhed in the Hautes Pyrenees... elevation 1400m.
Hipparchia fidia = Pseudotergumia fidia
Festón blanco - sátiro rayado.
No menos sorprendente fue encontrar a la Hipparchia (Pseudotergumia) fidia en cópula y sobre las acÃculas 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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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.
France; Coulonges (86) 19/10/21. After watching over several days it was still difficult to nail the male/female when not copulating.
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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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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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
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 !
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.
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 tenÃa registrada.
Fotograma recortado un 6%.
En los Charcos del rÃo 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.
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.
Looks like a Monarch doesn't it? But it's a male Queen butterfly which also feeds on Milkweed. The dark colored scent scale pouches on the hind wings show that the adult above in a male.
The underside of the Queen is very similar to the that of the Monarch. Even the caterpillar is similar but it has three pairs of thread-like tubercles (antennae) on its body. The Monarch has just two pairs, one pair at the head and the other at its tail.
Let's get scientific for a moment. Check this out!
"Because scent scales appear largely confined to the male sex, it seems reasonable to assume that male scent plays a role during courtship, and observations on the behavioral idiosyncracies of courtship in different species reveal that males actively use their scent-disseminating devices when courting a female. Tinbergen et al described how the male courtship culminates in a ‘bow’ during which he captures the female’s antennae between his forewings, whereby they are brought into direct physical contact with the male scent producing organ (Tinbergen et al., 1942). Likewise, in the queen butterfly, Danaus gilippus berenice, Brower et al. described how the male performs a courtship flight just above the female during which he everts his hairpencils and douses... Male monarchs first pursue females in the air, then proceed with aerial ‘hairpencilling’ before performing an aerial takedown just prior to copulation (Pliske,
1974). jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/210/6/964.pdf
Who knew?
Biscayne Park, FL
Pink flower is Corchorus sp., Malvaceae
L'azuré de l'ajonc : Silver-studded Blue : Plebejus argus
photograhed in the Hautes Pyrenees... elevation 1400m.
After a disappointing August, summer has decided to arrive at last. These two migrant hawkers were making the most of the opportunity!
Mallard Duck (Drake) - Anas platyrhynchos
The mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Falkland Islands, and South Africa.
The wild mallard is the ancestor of most domestic ducks, and its naturally evolved wild gene pool gets genetically polluted by the domesticated and feral mallard populations
During the breeding season, both male and female mallards can become aggressive, driving off competitors to themselves or their mate by charging at them. Males tend to fight more than females, and attack each other by repeatedly pecking at their rival's chest, ripping out feathers and even skin on rare occasions.
The drakes that end up being left out after the others have paired off with mating partners sometimes target an isolated female duck, even one of a different species, and proceed to chase and peck at her until she weakens, at which point the males take turns copulating with the female. Lebret (1961) calls this behaviour "Attempted Rape Flight", and Stanley Cramp and K.E.L. Simmons (1977) speak of "rape-intent flights". Male mallards also occasionally chase other male ducks of a different species, and even each other, in the same way. In one documented case of "homosexual necrophilia", a male mallard copulated with another male he was chasing after the chased male died upon flying into a glass window.] This paper was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2003.
The predation-avoidance behavior of sleeping with one eye open, allowing one brain hemisphere to remain aware while the other half sleeps, was first demonstrated in mallards, although it is believed to be widespread among birds in general.
J'ai pu voir, à plusieurs reprises ces petits hyménoptères céphides, très excités, s'accouplant ou cherchant à s'accoupler, sur des fleurs de renoncules (Ranunculus).
I have see, several times these little Cephid hymenoptera, very excited mating or seeking to do it on buttercup flowers (Ranunculus).
Envergure : 40 Ã 48mm
Vole de mars à début juillet en une génération.
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Pareja de Orthetrum chrysostygma copulando en un paraje del pantano de Argos en Calasparra, Murcia.
Couple of Orthetrum chrysostygma copulating in a spot of the Argos marsh in Calasparra, Murcia.
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
En cópula por la ribera del RÃo Francolà (Tarragona)
In copulation by the riverside of the Francolà River (Tarragona)
A esta especie la suelo ver en otoño en el mismo sitio. Veo las cópulas y puestas pero no siempre las puedo fotografiar.
En la Fuente del Chopo. Villena (Alicante) España
I see this species in autumn in the same place. I see copulations and puttings but I can not always photograph them.
In the Font del Chopo. Villena (Alicante) Spain