Movie 3
Video captured at 250 frames s-1 and replayed at 30 s-1 of a male mounting a female and grasping her with his enlarged hind legs during mating.
Do the enlarged hind legs of male thick-legged flower beetles contribute to take-off or mating?
Journal of Experimental Biology 2020. 223:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.212670