All the single ladies

Sep 23, 2011 00:32


This is what I got on Monday: only females came out of the cocoons that day. I had only one "bachelor" male left, so I had to find them some males that had already separated from their previous mates, and two of the ladies had to wait for several hours (one even ended up with a "third-hand" male because I had already had the same kind of incident earlier with this batch).

Here they are, all seven females of the day already "calling" for males:




Scenting the air with pheromone from those glands on both sides of their ovipositors:



A closer view at the glands:








Come on, people, it's only insect courtship behaviour! :P

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