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Friday, January 7, 2011

Bug Porn

You will see nothing but just Bug Porn here. 

Mating pair of green lantern bugs, Pyrops shiinaorum shiinaorum. More lantern bugs here.
mating pair of green lantern bug Pyrops shiinaorum shiinaorum IMG_6748 copy

A mating pair of assassin bugs. Eating at the same time too. Merged from 6 ( 2 rows x 3 columns) images in photoshop. More detail here.
Food, sex and TV???....:D assassin bugs mating and eatingIMG_4897 merged copy

Another pair of mating assassin bugs:
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A mating pair of ant-mimic crab spiders. For more wonderful spiders check this out.
Ant-Mimic Crab spiders - STACKED!!! mating IMG_1261 copy

Lichen huntsman mating in broad day light, natural light. Tips on natural light macro here.
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More amazing Tropical Spiders here.

Opisthocosmia sp. earwigs lek mating as suggested by Prof. Piotr Naskrecki. ID credit: Sam heads.  Night find, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Giraffe weevils /long necked beetle sex. See how a female giraffe weevil builds a nest here.
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Check out a fun animation of giraffe weevil mating here.

Mating pair of giraffe weevil Korotyaevirhinus necopinus orientalis,  Legalov, 2003. (ID credit: Andrei). Oh did you notice the ant as well?:D. More images from the series here.
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A mating pair of Tiger Beetles. (Tricondyla sp.). Selangor, Malaysia.
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Mating pair of weevils.
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Weevils porn
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Mating pair of weevils.
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A mating pair of Handsome Fungus Beetle (Endomychidae - Eumorphus sp., possibly Eumorphus  quadriguttatus - ID suggested by Michael Geiser). Selangor, Malaysia
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Tumbling flower beetles sex :D. Not a good one but these beetles are very skittish so I can't complain. For more beautiful beetles, check out this post.
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Beetles. Check out the male's organ :D. Selangor, Malaysia.
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Mating pair of beetles. Full flash with negative FEC. More about FEC here.
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A mating pair of Gnoma sp. longhorn beetles I came across at night. Selangor, Malaysia.
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Tortoise beetles sex
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Tortoise beetles sex, again:D. Focused stacked from 2 images. Tutorial here.
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Beetles
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Leaf beetles
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Lycidae beetle. More tropical beetles here.
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Another mating pair of leaf beetles
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Look Ma, no hands! Yee Haw!
Look Ma, No hands! Yeehaw!!!   IMG_7340 copy

More leaf beetles sex
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Checkered beetles, Cleridae, mating.
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A mating pair of Tortoise beetles (Aspidomorpha miliaris) and an opportunist parasitoid wasp.
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A male roach trying to impress a female, I think. Epilamprine or near. Selangor, Malaysia.
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Cockroach Porn! A pair of mating roaches I found on a tree at night. Selangor, Malaysia.
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Mating pair of snails. Selangor, Malaysia.
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Sticky sex. Stick insects mating. Merged from two horizontal shots.
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Another pair of mating stick insects.
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Giant female stick insect, approx. 10 inches long, and her tiny male partner. Night find, Selangor, Malaysia.
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A mating pair of stick insects, Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo).  Orthomeria (Parorthomeria) alexis (Westwood, 1859) - ID credit: Joachim Bresseel
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I thought I was photographing a chirping male cricket. I realized there was another cricket (female) when I post processed the images on my laptop! I think the male was playing a courting song and the female was on top of the male. Night find, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Info from Nancy Oecanthinancy:  The male raises his wings to sing and to expose the metanotal gland. The female sips from the gland to get her in position for the male to transfer a spermatophore. He then keeps the gland exposed so she will continue to sip from it - and thus prevent her from removing the spermatophore too early.

A mating pair of damselflies
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A mating pair of Amantis sp. mantids. More wonderful tropical mantids here.
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Flies
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More mating flies
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Fly sex, shot with the Canon 100mm F2.8 IS. A brief review on the IS here.
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Mating pair of grouse locusts
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A mating pair of mirid bugs(?)
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Mating pair of caddisflies.
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Grouse locusts
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Cixiid planthopper mating.
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Derbidae hopper mating
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Mating pair of Derbidae hopper.
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Mating pair of planthoppers
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Leafhoppers mating
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Stilt legged flies, mating
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Pentatomidae bugs (?) mating.
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Froggy love :D. Rhacophorus dulitensis, Mount Dulit Treefrog, from Danum Valley.
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More tropical amphibians and other herps here.

Hold Me Tight. A pair of Norhayati's Flying Frog (Rhacophorus norhayatii) in amplexus. Night herping, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Just a record shot of White Spotted TreeFrog / Cinnamon Frog (Nyctixalus pictus) in amplexus. Selangor, Malaysia.
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Frogs in amplexus. Marten's oriental frog/Round-tongued Floating Frog (Occidozyga martensii ?) Low land forest, night herping, Selangor, Malaysia.
Marten's Oriental Frog amplexus IMG_3511 copy

Dward/Lesser Stream Toad (Ingerophrynus parvus) in amplexus. Night herping, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Mating pair of toads (not bugs, I know :D). More herps here.
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Mating pair of cicadas
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Mating pair of butterflies. More butterflies here.
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A mating pair of Lime Butterflies (Papilio demoleus malayanus)
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Mating pair of moths
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Tiger moths
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A mating pair of moth. Eupterote asclepiades - ID suggested by Chun Xing Wong and Antonio Giudici. Selangor, Malaysia.
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A pair of mating hawk moths (Sphingidae). The male was on hands-free mode . Kuala Lumpur. (IDed as Daphnusa ocellaris - Андрей Синайский )
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6 comments:

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  2. Amazing sights you come across...don't you blush? ;)

    I think I must put Malaysia on my list of countries to visit - spectacular bugs!

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  3. Thanks, Adrian. I was too busy shooting and getting the light right i forgot to blush :P

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  4. Hey! Your blog is GREAT! Wonderful images, great writing. Wish I could remember how I found it. It was a link on someone else's blog. If I chance upon it again, I'll let you know.

    About those giraffe-necked weevils--do the males and females have different neck-lengths, are their necks retractable or what? Looks like the male's is long and the female's is short.

    I wished I lived where there were giraffe-necked weevils.

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  5. Thanks, Mycologista. Yes, males do have longer necks than the females. The necks are not retractable.

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