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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Walkingsticks (Phasmida) » Diapheromeridae
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Diapheromera femorata mating - male - female
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Diapheromera femorata mating - Male Female
Pawnee County, Oklahoma, USA
August 30, 2019
1:30 am August 30 2019, mating on grass stem near small stand of young black locust seedlings. Three other lone males and one lone female also observed, on the black locust.

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Contributed by Bugpuncher on 30 August, 2019 - 3:14am
Last updated 30 August, 2019 - 9:01am

Moved
Not sure about these. The head shape and color pattern looks like Manomera blatchleyi but the middle femora on the male are way too thick to be a Manomera

Moved from Northern Walkingstick.
… metrioptera, 30 August, 2019 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

 
Diapheromera
Thanks. I have a few more photos if you're interested.

I brought the 3 males I saw on the black locust back to the house and put them in with some females I had collected 2-4 weeks before, all of them on Solidago about a quarter mile away. One of the males immediately began trying to mate but I am not sure it was successful as they didn't stay together very long.

UPDATE: Lots of mating happening. I put on my readers and saw lots of eggs on the bottom of the cage, and one female is about to drop another egg.
… Bugpuncher, 30 August, 2019 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

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