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Santalecina (Huesca) Comarca aragonesa del Cinca Medio.
Esta pareja tampoco colaboró demasiado. Pillarlos de esta manera resulta muy complicado. Son veloces, muy rápidas en la cópula y en la puesta. Los machos resultan tremendamente “acosadores”.
Santalecina (Huesca) Aragonese region of Cinca Medio.
This couple did not collaborate too much either. To catch them in this way is very complicated. They are fast, very fast in the copulation and in the putting. The males are tremendously "stalkers".
« Feminine coyness is in fact very common among animals, and so are prolonged courtship or engagement periods. ... Courtship rituals often include considerable pre-copulation investment by the male. The female may refuse to copulate until the male has built her a nest. Or the male may have to feed her quite substantial amounts of food. »
Richard Dawkins
This snapshot is dedicated to my friend MAD and to his idea of a good shot!
RKO_6398. What else can you wish while on safari?
We ran into this beautiful couple and watched them doing the reproduction process a couple of times to get the best images! LOL
Reproduction and life cycle:
Both sexes are polygamous and breed throughout the year, but females are usually restricted to the one or two adult males of their pride. In the wild they usually breed no more than once in two years. Females are receptive to mating for three or four days within a widely variable reproductive cycle. During this time a pair generally mates every 20–30 minutes, with up to 50 copulations per 24 hours. Such extended copulation not only stimulates ovulation in the female but also secures paternity for the male by excluding other males. Like those of other cats, the male lion's penis has spines that point backward. During withdrawal of the penis, the spines rake the walls of the female's vagina, which may cause ovulation and pain. The gestation period is about 108 days, and the litter size varies from one to six cubs, two to four being usual. Source: Brittanica and Wikipedia.
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Two pairs of Danaus Chrysippus, better known as Tiger Butterflies, photographed from different angles at the most important moment of their lives: creating offspring. The male always sits on top and the female hangs below, attached by the abdomen to her partner (see larger image).
Dos parejas de Danaus Chrysippus, más conocidas como Mariposas Tigre, fotografiadas desde diferentes ángulos en el momento más importante de sus vidas: crear una descendencia. El macho siempre se coloca arriba y la hembra cuelga debajo, unida por el abdomen a su pareja (ver en grande).
Blue is the colour for queen bees who are born in 2015 ...
The bee keeper gives every copulated queen bee an own sign.
So it will be easier to see the queen bee on the comb.
Male cuckoos often entice females to copulate with food offerings, and that is exactly what this guy is doing. Roadrunners are also cuckoos and show the same behavior. Until I processed this pic, I didn't notice the stinkbug on the branch, nor the one in this bird's mouth. How romantic! Our beautiful world, pass it on.
Watching Red Shouldered Bugs mate can be amusing; with seemingly no regard to privacy (or possible size 9 sneakers).
These two bugs connect their rears and walk forward and backward, taking turns leading one another. Females then deposit their eggs by a shrub or tree.
The nymphs are hatched completely red and grow into various stages over the summer until they obtain their blue-black wings.
Red-shouldered bugs are sometimes called “scentless plant bugs” because they don´t smell like stink bugs or other types of bugs.
L'azuré de l'ajonc : Silver-studded Blue : Plebejus argus
photograhed in the Hautes Pyrenees... elevation 1400m.
Lesser Emperor Dragonfly (Anax parthenope) – Mating & Oviposition
Photographed at Rio Seco, Spain. I was trying to capture a pair of mating dragonflies in flight when, to my surprise, they landed right next to me—so close that my large lens couldn’t even fit their full wings and in the frame.
What I did manage to capture, however, was a clear view of their unique and fascinating mating behavior. The male clasps the female behind the head with special appendages at the tip of his abdomen, a grip known as the tandem position. He then transfers sperm to his secondary genitalia, after which the female curls her abdomen forward to connect, forming the characteristic heart- or wheel-shaped mating position.
In my photograph, the pair have already completed copulation, and the female is laying her eggs in the shallow water—a critical part of their life cycle.
Planning on being more common.
Taken at Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire.
All jokes welcome.
Flea beetles copulating on Prostanthera campbellii plant at Lake Deborah.
Donna Tomkinson
I'm going to suggest the flea beetle Arsipoda. Looks similar to Arsipoda holomelaena, but there isn't any observations for that species on iNat in WA, & only one old one on AoLA, and some of the other species have no photo's in the gallery so I don't know what they look like. Example from iNat by the bunyip. inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/68049558
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Mute Swans / cygnus olor. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 02/02/21.
'LOVE ON A LAKE.'
For the last few weeks these Mute Swans have taken to strengthening their pair bond very intensely. At first there were a lot of daily interactions, bubble blowing and snorting. Then, just before the latest freeze, they had started to copulate too.
Now the frozen lake surface has halted actual mating temporarily - though they still keep close company and have eyes only for each other!
I made this image at the beginning of the month after they had just mated. After the act they spend a few tender moments acknowledging each other, then swim further apart and start frantically dipping heads underwater.
Well this is not two males fighting about one or two females. No one of the other tried to copulate with the other male, Some rainbow birds?! This happend over and over again. Ottenby, Öland, Sweden.
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Both sexes are polygamous and breed throughout the year, but females are usually restricted to the one or two adult males of their pride.
In captivity lions often breed every year, but in the wild they usually breed no more than once in two years.
Females are receptive to mating for three or four days within a widely variable reproductive cycle.
During this time a pair generally mates every 20–30 minutes, with up to 50 copulations per 24 hours. Such extended copulation not only stimulates ovulation in the female but also secures paternity for the male by excluding other males.
The gestation period is about 108 days, and the litter size varies from one to six cubs, two to four being usual.
The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the family Felidae; it is a muscular, deep-chested cat with a short, rounded head, a reduced neck and round ears, and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions have a prominent mane, which is the most recognisable feature of the species. With a typical head-to-body length of 184–208 cm they are larger than females at 160–184 cm. It is a social species, forming groups called prides. A lion pride consists of a few adult males, related females and cubs. Groups of female lions usually hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The lion is an apex and keystone predator, although some lions scavenge when opportunities occur, and have been known to hunt humans, although the species typically does not. Typically, the lion inhabits grasslands and savannas, but is absent in dense forests. It is usually more diurnal than other big cats, but when persecuted it adapts to being active at night and at twilight. African lions live in scattered populations across Sub-Saharan Africa. The lion prefers grassy plains and savannahs, scrub bordering rivers and open woodlands with bushes. It is absent from rainforest and rarely enters closed forest. S_3873
De couleurs variées, les grandes loches peuvent être rouges, orangées, brunes ou noires. Elles ne s'accouplent qu'avec des individus de même couleur.
In various colors, the great black slug may be red, orange, brown or black. They mate only with individuals of the same color.
A pair of Banded Demoiselles (Calopteryx splendens) keep trying and failing to form a mating wheel by the River Welland near Stamford. The grass stem she is perched on prevents her abdomen moving forward, and every time he lifts her up the grass rises too. They were stuck on stupid for quite some time.
I inadvertently did them a favour by getting too close. They flew off together and landed somewhere more suited to copulation (but not for photography).
I am going to assume that this is a male and female grasshopper doing their thing are of the same species or varieties.....but In humans brown eyes are dominate,,,,,,so, what is a dominate color in red and purple?
La queue ne gêne pas du tout Monsieur Paon !
C'est seulement la deuxième fois en dix ans de visites presque hebdomadaires que je surprends ce moment très intime !
La première en 2012....cinq ans déjà !
NB: not captive. Seen on an exterior container.
Plecia is a genus of flies within family Bibionidae, commonly known as March flies - and because they are often found mating, also known as love bugs and honeymoon flies.
Here are a pair in copula, the larger female with forelegs raised, to the left.
Female around 10 mm body length, male around 7 mm.
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NEW JERSEY 2017 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
A pair of mating green shieldbugs, Palomena prasina. 1 July 2020. Ealing, London, England, UK.
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I think these are probably blue-tailed damseflies. Check out the last photo here: www.british-dragonflies.org.uk/?q=species/blue-tailed-dam....