This couple however, was not so acrobatic....but still, they had to figure out a way to back into each other's rear without using rear view mirrors (Gawd. Insects are so weird)!
This little perv was more interested in that other couple though...
...they just kept hanging and swinging in the breeze...I'm not sure this was a move that the one hanging upside-down had planned on because look at that expression!
Then there were these two tiger beetles. Love was on the rocks when it comes to this couple (again, literally).
She would take her middle legs and try to push that boy off and sometimes she was able to do that but he would just fly a big circle and in a flash, he was on her again. I think she was very, very annoyed with him. She just wanted.....to........get......him......off....of her.Tiger beetle boys are obnoxious like that because they don't want any other tiger beetle messing with their girl. I'm thinking this tiger beetle girl would like to be a spider girl because 1. she would have an extra set of legs to push him off and 2. if she wanted to punctuate her feelings regarding his technique, she could bite off his head.
Further up the creek, the ebony jewelwing damselflies were flitting up and down and across and alighting on the big butterbur leaves and were experiencing love much more romantically.
The boy holds the girl's head (she's the one with the white dots on her wings)...
...and then they bend their bodies...
...to form a heart.
So, so pretty. It was hard to look away from such a thing.
Unless you were Tilly...
...or Bo (who was busy walking and drinking at the same time)...
...or even Bella...
...because not only was it a steamy day when it comes to insect love, it was a steamy day when it comes to weather...
...a day to just hang out and stay cool...
...and let someone know you love them. :-)
13 comments:
Love is in the air, everywhere you look around...
Love on the rocks, ain't no big surprise...So you just sing the blues for a while...When they know they have you, then they really have you. Nothing you can do or say. You've got to leave just get away....We all know the song.
Sometimes being a lady spider is the best. Laughed at those dogs knowing how to spend a steamy afternoon...and sharing a kiss with the camera.
Leenie-Your comment is so darn musical. Is it a real song or are you extra clever?
The birds and the bees! And the bugs.
Thought you'd know these:
"Love is in the Air" John Paul Young
"Love on the Rocks" Neil Diamond
Mental-More like birds and the milkweed bugs...or beetles...or damselflies. I don't think bees get it on so publicly like those other guys....and besides, don't they have just one queen?
Leenie-I'm not good with hearing lyrics. For years I thought The Who was singing "Blue Awnings," not "Who Are You."
And I thought the Bee Gees were singing Bald Headed Woman instead of More Than A...
Maureen-I just YouTubed that song-----That's the only thing I can hear TOO. :-/ And Leenie----errgh, I have not been able to get that "Love is in the Air" song out of my head since I YouTubed THAT one too.
I always thought Elvis Costello's "Accidents Can Happen" sounded like "acid indigestion" but who would write a song about that? Of course, if they're writing songs about bald headed women and blue awnings, who knows? :-)
The damselflies-awesome with the heart! Maria YOU.Crack.Me.Up. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Fun, fun, fun post. I know you have heard of those love bugs. They ruined the paint on our car in Louisiana in their efforts to love each other. And each other. And another. And all of them in a frenzy of love :)
Pix-Love bugs are box elder bugs, right? Or are they those crazy Asian lady bugs? See? I HAVEN'T heard of them. And they make such a mess they damage paint on cars? That romance world of bugs is something else.
Thanks for the nice compliment. I was pretty proud of that post myself. :-) I'm off to see what's new on that land today and hopefully it won't be too hot too soon. I still remember that time where all I did was get out of the car, dispense biscuits to dogs and then drive back home because it was just too darn hot. What is August going to be like???? :-p
Btw-Leenie's "Love is in the Air" song is STILL in my head!!!!!!!
indeed. Love's in the air. The black heart- amazing.
Megi- Isn't it? They were such an amazing thing to watch. Those individual damselflies are usually knocking into me when I'm sitting on my favorite rock in the creek. Apparently there's a damselfly highway running along the creek edge which I tend to forget about until I sit right down smack in the middle of it. :-)
Hi Maria. FINALLY I stopped in and was just amazed and entertained by your photos and written wit. I'll be back soon - 8 more weeks of R & R - and will visit as many earlier blogs as i can cram in this summer. Linus and Teddy would go NUTS if these bugs, etc., lived outside of their windows. Alas, all they have are birdies - big raven birdies, and they are great fun to chase inside - from one bay window to another. We just have lots of mosquitos but fortunately the black flies live further north, so that's the extent of the excitement for my 2 boys. You really need to write a book, Maria!
Aunt Ellyn-I did kind of write a children's book years ago about bugs of all things. It was an ABC book...with a plot. I needed to edit down the pages to 32 or something like that and the only way I could figure out how to do that was to edit out half the alphabet. Hahaha. So it sits. But one of these days.... :-)
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