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This mating pair of Common Green Darners were the only ones I encountered in an hour and half of hiking in the Dutch Gap Conservation area.
March 28, 2012. Dutch Gap Conservation Area, Chesterfield County, Virginia.
Two Common Red Soldier Beetles having a not so private moment 😁😁
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Image Taken: June 2023.
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In The Garden Of Love -
On both sides of the abandoned railway tracks, the lalang plants were as tall as me. I saw three butterflies flitting together from flower to flower, tumbling on air in ecstasy. A pair finally conjoined together to mate, the third butterfly persisted to woo the female away from her partner. Two's company; three's a crowd, he gave up and flew away after several attempts. After mating, the female butterfly will search for a host plant to lay her eggs. She can use her feet to sense the taste of the leaf and determine a suitable site.
Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Austin, Texas, USA.
Photograph is by Alex Wild, and is in the public domain.
Captured this image of two insects mating while I was looking out my patio door. Good that I always have at least one camera close at hand. Luck for me that this insect couple was definitely concentrating on other things than me approaching them with a camera in hand.
Stiletto flies - possibly Ectinorhynchus - mating in a swamp in Munster, Perth.
Despite the fact the larvae live in dry sand and litter, the adults are attracted to water, so I suppose finding them there makes sense.
The beetle on his back was dragged off the female mid-performance and another one muscled in to take over while his mate held the first one back – at least that was the story playing out in my mind anyway. This must have been a particularly gorgeous girl as there were other solitary females on the same leaf. Mint beetles don't make things easy for themselves – this is the second time I have seen three males battling over one female.
The one on top appeared to be doing most of the flying work. They were flying around, rested for a bit on this leaf, and were about to take off again!
I guess it's part of their ritual. LOL!
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I found these two Restless Bush Crickets while I was starting to do yard work for my dad, they were both sitting inside the door of the shed. I put them in a container and put it inside so I could photograph them later. I came in a few hours later and glanced in their container and only saw one of them, and it looked unusually hump backed. Then I realized they were mating! Unlike most insects, the female is the one on top! She nibbles the male's forewings and then the male releases it's sperm packet before she can eat it too. Below are two shots of them individually on white.
When Two Become One -
On a hot and sunny day in April, I bend down and observed 2 moths. While the rest love the moon, they prefer strong daylight. I seemed to hear in the stillness of the marshland, the fluttering of wings as they performed their mating act. Two orange-striped bodies in passionate love and union, furry ends overlapping each other.
Probably wasps of some kind? I wonder if this really is consenting. ;-) No, frankly, watching them, I was under the impression that they rather wanted to feed on that achillea than copulate, but couldn't let go. The struggle lasted a few minutes, then they managed to let go and both fed side by side.
There were loads of these things at it in our garden tonight. A dirty pair even landed on my arm to give me a close up demonstration! Filth I tell ya!
This pair of dragonflies were flying together for a while and then stopped on this branch. Why they were were coupled this way I wouldn't know for sure. The red one was carrying the yellow while flying.
I don't know what it is about me...no matter where I go, I see bugs having more fun than I am! LOL! Must be mating season for them all lately, or something! These guys were a little different, and I have no idea WHAT they are! I've never seen them before, and they are pretty big, and pretty ugly!
From my "Insects", and "Sugar Mill" sets.
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