Male sponge-wasps (Biorhiza pallida) seek for hatching females, to mate with them immediately. Here, several males have surrounded a female and everyone tries to be the first in mating, Biosphere Reserve 'Niedersächsische Elbtalaue' / Lower Saxonian Elbe Valley, Lower Saxony, Germany

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