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Mating

  • (Denis Anderson, Wikimedia Commons)
    Executing Queen Bees
    Walker Rhea
    In a bee hive, most bees work hard collecting pollen from flowers, except the queen, who doesn't even have to leave her hive.
  • (Art Farmer, Wikimedia Commons)
    Firefly Mating Signals
    Walker Rhea
    Firefly flashes are actually mating signals. Male fireflies cruise the evening air, flashing their lanterns in a pattern characteristic of their species, looking for females of their own kind.
  • Hummingbird combat.
    Hummingbirds
    LuAnn Johnson
    Male hummers are extremely aggressive. They even stab each other!