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Can someone explain to me?

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Can someone explain to me? sent on 24 Maggio 2025 (22:25) by Thealby87. 11 comments, 305 views.

at 45mm, 1/15 f/6.3, ISO 640, hand held.

Non capisco se sono della stessa specie, se si stanno accoppiando o se uno ha ucciso l'altro...


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sent on 25 Maggio 2025 (1:03) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)    

I believe that the black one is, rather than mating, mating (without the) the yellow one, which should be a common hornet. I don't know if it's (the black one) one of those terrible parasitic wasps that is injecting an egg into her that will then give life to a larva that will eat her alive from the inside... Or maybe it's just stinging to death.

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sent on 25 Maggio 2025 (5:50) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)    

More than anything else, I didn't think there were such big and scary wasps here in Italy, even bigger than the hornet

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sent on 25 Maggio 2025 (15:41) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)    

Congratulations on the shot. In fact, the black woman does not seem to me to have good intentions.
Have a nice Sunday afternoon

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sent on 25 Maggio 2025 (15:46) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)    

Taken from National Geographic !!! Incredibly impressive !! Congratulations!!!

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sent on 25 Maggio 2025 (16:02) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)    

Ok, I got the explanation from an insect expert: it's a mating between two Cimbex Quadrimaculatus. Male and female are different, but you can see that they have the same antennae, so it's an act of reproduction.

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sent on 25 Maggio 2025 (21:10) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)    

In fact, the antennas are almost identical.

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sent on 28 Maggio 2025 (19:41) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)    

A great shot that documents a coupling that seems brutal...
congratulations!!!

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sent on 01 Giugno 2025 (7:21) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)    

Gorgeous macro, see you next time

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sent on 14 Giugno 2025 (10:46) | This comment has been translated    

Very interesting!

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sent on 02 Dicembre 2025 (8:17) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)    

A very nice shot, you caught an interesting moment and in an excellent way both for the management of light and maf on the subjects.
If there hadn't been that blur in the foreground it would have been really at the top even on a compositional level, but given the moment it's fine too!

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sent on 02 Dicembre 2025 (10:41)    

I'm not an entomologist, but AI helps to some extent. These are not even wasps, they are sawflies, and as such, they lack a stinger. Given the fact that some species show quite a dramatic sexual dimorphism, I think we have the solution, Mike. They are mating


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