
Caption
First place - Alan Clark (UK)
German wasps drinking
Credit
© Alan Clark
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First place - Alan Clark (UK)
German wasps drinking
© Alan Clark
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.