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The World of Minibeasts

How Flies Do it: Flirting

 

...putting his front feet at her eyes... The male of Platystoma seminationis as the next step also places his feet at the inner rim of the female's eyes. The couple remains like this for a while. Then, the female bends her head upward.  ...putting their probeoscises forward...

They start to put out their proboscises: the male downward, the female steeply upward.

...getting their proboscises together... Their ends meet and remain in touch. 

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Photographs by José Verkest, text by Maria Pfeifer