Insects having steamy sex: photo!
These are Hyalophora cecropia silkworm moths, one of our largest native North American insects, mating on the female’s cocoon.
Insects having steamy sex: photo!
@alexwild Let's title this "Memories of times past". There may be a meter of snow at that spot right now.
Short-horned grasshoper, Podisma pedestris https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127279991
Insects having steamy sex: photo!
@albertcardona conopids! So cool
Insects having steamy sex: photo!
@alexwild Although sometimes the party goes wild!
Conopid fly Physocephala vittata (likely), from a family that parasitizes bees and wasps https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/130151539
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