MINISEX

About this book

The book is dedicated to introducing the reader to the various, breathtaking and sometimes surprising ways of mating in invertebrates from around the world. Unusual and most striking features of the biology and behavior of invertebrates are presented in an accessible and visual way. This is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to learn more about these wonderful creatures.

Digital drawings for

© Dr Rudy Jocqué

 (Belgium)

Adobe Photoshop

Graphic the tablet

Rudy Jocqué, 175 pages,

60 colour illustrations, in Dutch

Cephalopoda

 

Mating  Octopus vulgaris. The male is on the right

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Platyhelminthes
Penis fencing is a mating behavior engaged in by many species of flatworm
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Malacostraca
Courtship dance of male Uca
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Gastropoda
Courtship in the edible snail, Helix pomatia
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Arachnida
Bolas spider (Cladomelea) on the hunt
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Insecta
Bees mating
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Insecta
Male and female moth. Mating dance
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Insecta
Mating Stalk-eyed flies
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Insecta
Fight of males European stag beetle
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Insecta
Termite King and Queen
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Insecta
Mating Magicicada septendecim
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Insecta
Mating in common bluetails
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Walckenaeria polita
Walckenaeria acuminata
Walckenaeria furcillata ♂
Walckenaeria furcillata ♀

Arachnida

 

 

tropical tent-web spider

Cyrtophora citricola

copulation

Thecostraca

 

 

Mating in Barnacles

 

 

Gastropoda

 

 

Mating in leopard slugs

Limax maximus

Polychaeta

 

 

Mating Dance of the Palolo Worms

Diplopoda

 

 

Epibolus sp. mating; the male is on the left

 

 

 

Insecta

 

 

A male Empis opaca ‘cheat’ mating with a female

 who is turning the ball of willow-seed fluff over and

over as if it were normal prey.

Branchiopoda

 

 

Daphnia mating with two males at the same time

 

 

Insecta

 

 

Pollination of the hammer orchid by a male of the thynnine wasp Zaspilothynnus nigripes

Insecta

 

 

Female Lampyris noctiluca. They emit yellowish-green light from the translucent underside of their last three abdominal segments to attract the smaller males, which are winged.

Walckenaeria polita
Walckenaeria acuminata
Walckenaeria furcillata ♂
Walckenaeria furcillata ♀

Arachnida

 

 

tropical tent-web spider

Cyrtophora citricola

copulation

Thecostraca

 

 

Mating in Barnacles

Gastropoda

 

 

Mating in leopard slugs

Limax maximus

Polychaeta

 

 

Mating Dance of the Palolo Worms

Diplopoda

 

 

Epibolus sp. mating; the male is on the left

Insecta

 

 

A male Empis opaca ‘cheat’ mating with a female who is turning the ball of willow-seed fluff over and over as if it were normal prey.

Branchiopoda

 

 

Daphnia mating with two males at the same time

Insecta

 

 

Pollination of the hammer orchid by a male of the thynnine wasp Zaspilothynnus nigripes

Insecta

 

 

Female Lampyris noctiluca. They emit yellowish-green light from the translucent underside of their last three abdominal segments to attract the smaller males, which are winged.

Walckenaeria polita
Walckenaeria acuminata
Walckenaeria furcillata ♂
Walckenaeria furcillata ♀

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Platyhelminthes
Penis fencing is a mating behavior engaged in by many species of flatworm
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Malacostraca
Courtship dance of male Uca
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Gastropoda
Courtship in the edible snail, Helix pomatia
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Arachnida
Bolas spider (Cladomelea) on the hunt
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Insecta
Bees mating
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Insecta
Male and female moth
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Insecta
Mating Stalk-eyed flies
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Insecta
Fight of males European stag beetle (Lucanus cervus)
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Insecta
Termite King and Queen
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Insecta
Mating Magicicada septendecim
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Insecta
Mating in common bluetails
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