114 days to go to Insect Week
Learn about how we identify insects using keys and get up close to nature with your very own garden safari adventure!
Female water snipe flies Atherix ibis clasp each other and cluster in big round aggregations on the end of branches overhanging rivers – males entering the swarms are mated repeatedly until they die. The females then lay their eggs in to the water – and all die still in their tight aggregations.