Very nice and interesting!
I would suppose it was a rare picture.
But what do I know? When so many clever people walk around with potent cameras, the rare can eventually become common.
But I have personally never seen anything like this.
Troels Holm, biologist (retired), environmentalist, amateur photographer. Visit my Flickr albums
This literally "fell" from the sky in front of me and at first I thought it was a bug in difficulty, but when I saw the spots on the wings I soon realized that they were ants ... here I have seen several "nuptial flights" and now and then the apartment walls are full of failed males `waiting to die for 2-3 days ... but I never saw a queen, much less the act of fertilization ...
I was only able to take 4 photos for 1 minute and a half (reading the time on the exif of the photos) .. then I changed the camera settings and tried to shade the scene with my cap ... and when I pointed the lens again the male was already gone ...
exp2 crop MA220848 by antonio caseiro, on Flickr
