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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Tree Crickets (Oecanthinae) » Common Tree Crickets (Oecanthus) » Nigricornis Group (Oecanthus Nigricornis Group) » Fast-calling Tree Cricket (Oecanthus celerinictus)
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same-sex marriage? male O. celerinictus drinking metanotal fluid from male - Oecanthus celerinictus - male
Copyright © 2019 Dvori Feldman

same-sex marriage? male O. celerinictus drinking metanotal fluid from male - Oecanthus celerinictus - Male
Travis County, Texas, USA

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same-sex marriage? male O. celerinictus drinking metanotal fluid from male - Oecanthus celerinictus - male same-sex marriage? male O. celerinictus drinking metanotal fluid from male - Oecanthus celerinictus - male
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Contributed by Dvori Feldman on 26 November, 2019 - 5:29pm

WOW....
You certainly have the most fascinating behaviors to share!

Seems I have heard of or seen this perhaps once before, but these photos are awesome!
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 27 November, 2019 - 9:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, Nancy!
Interestingly, these guys are in a large butterfly cage (36" tall) with plants and cricket powder, and there are about 10 celerinictus, half males and half females. So this wasn't for lack of ladies or lack of food. :)
… Dvori Feldman, 29 November, 2019 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

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