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Long-tailed Dance Fly - Rhamphomyia - male

Long-tailed Dance Fly - Rhamphomyia - Male
near Ailsa Craig, Ontario, Canada
June 25, 2004
Males hunt small insects and bring the dead prey as "nuptial gifts" to females in exchange for a chance to mate. Males prefer to mate with the fattest and hairiest females, but being really fat and hairy also increases the female's chances of getting caught in spider webs. There's more info in another PDF doc here. The entire ritual is one of the coolest insect behavior stories I've ever read.