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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:24:01 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:18:04 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:57:13 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:56:56 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:23:32 -0700

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Show-off!

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:19:34 -0700

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It doesn’t matter how many times I wander through nature, searching for photogenic insects (and sometimes spiders, brrr); every time again I am surprised by the things I encounter. This time I ran into a threesome. (However, I’m afraid that one of the players was not really having a good time.) It was a marvellous spectacle: male fly was (while hanging on the “horizontal bar”. Wow, what a guy!) mating with female fly, while female fly was enjoying a delicious meal, i.e. sucking out the inside of her prey (the not so happy smaller, third fly). As soon as female fly was done eating, she instantly dropped her prey and – hoopla! – she also abruptly ended the mating ritual. No signs of an afterplay whatsoever.
For a moment I thought that it was pure coincidence, the combination of mating and eating. But less than 6 feet away, the exact same scene occurred. Of course I didn’t see the foreplay, but I presume that in the world of these specific flies, bringing home a delicious meal for the woman he loves is THE way for a male fly to seduce his woman. And actually, to be honest, this is not such a bad way….is it? ;-)

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:58:05 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:57:41 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:16:36 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:15:48 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:33:39 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:32:05 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:56:06 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:56:02 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:15:15 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:14:59 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:16:27 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:16:02 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:15:33 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (Ingeborg Ruyken) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:14:58 -0700

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