Photo #29978: Carterocephalus palaemon

Male & female

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Base gallery. Lateral/Underside. Alive insect.

Photo, and identified by: Alexsandr Martukov. Image without retouching at the website

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2014-06-01 00:00:00, Vologda region, Velikoustyugsky district, Yudinsky settlement, in the great floodplain of the Northern Dvina, on the bank of the Striga River, lawn at the b. church of the Tikhvin Mother of God.

Photographer's comment: Before my eyes, fertilization took place within about 20 minutes. Then they twirled around the stem, loosened with difficulty, and flew away, landing on the grass stalks within a radius of about three meters.

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