I'm not sure it's fashionable in 2025 to worry about being too reticent in one's courtship practices. In fact, I'm sure it's NOT. Better a "goddamn perfect gentleman" than a douchebag whose name is in the whisper network...
Flies get love blind: Katrin Vogt @katvogt wrote a dispatch on two papers on dopamine and courtship in #Drosophila, by the Rezaval lab and the Crickmore lab, on how flies become unaware of threats leading into copulation, and how they awaken from this condition afterwards:
"Behavioral neuroscience: Flexible integration on the fly", Vogt 2024
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222401426X
Frosch im Wasser
Frog in water
#Frösche -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/915
"From the first blush of attraction to the final vows at the altar, courtship during Britain’s Regency period — which lasted from 1811 to 1820 — was equal parts romance and business," writes Parissa Djangi for National Geographic. She explains the real rules of entering the marriage market in the "Bridgerton" era.
#History @histodons #Bridgerton #Lifestyle #Courtship #Romance
Pair of Strongylophthalmyia pengellyi courting each other. Hands down the most beautifully choreographed mating display I have ever witnessed. Male would levitate ~1 mm off the leaf surface and fly in a tight circle around the female. He'd also spin around to face her, pop his wings back and forth, and more. #fly #diptera #insects #entomology #courtship #mating #nature #macro #MacroPhotography
Here's a video of a male red-headed bush cricket singing. I assume the clear left wing is a display feature but couldn't find confirmation. Would make for a fun undergrad project ... all you'd need is a Sharpie. #cricket #courtship #insects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oqRn6xVwXY&t=11s
A pair of Chrysolina bankii beetles playing piggyback-rides on the path this morning.
Yes, that’s what they’re doing and I won’t hear otherwise… 
A bit of #CommonBlue #butterfly #courtship at #WWTCastleEspie.
He was persistent but she wasn’t even slightly interested 
#nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #invertebrate #invertebrates #insect #insects #InsectPhotography #lepidoptera #butterflies #wwt @savebutterflies
"Romantic Pursuits? Rethinking Courtship in Georgian Wales" by Angela Joy Muir.
Abstract
Existing histories of #courtship in the long eighteenth century typically focus on it as a step on the road to marriage [rarely] consider the immediate risks for unmarried women associated with courtship customs that allow or encourage premarital sex. Historians of sexual violence have identified these risks, but they rarely feature in histories of courtship. Using records from the Court of Great Sessions, this article explores the limited but tangible evidence of conjugal courtship customs in #Georgian #Wales, often referred to as ‘bundling’ or ‘courtship at night’. It then interrogates records of #murder and sexual #assault associated with courtship to examine the blurred lines between rape and seduction, which in Wales were further complicated by courtship practices that created additional vulnerabilities for women.
@histodons @historikerinnen #femicide #histodons https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14631180.2023.2230730?src=
Unknown flies with beautiful copperish colours courting and mating on the surface of a dead crab by the beach. A male was playing a song with its wing, successfully leading to mating.
T. Rex - “Dreamy Lady” (1976)
About 30 years ago I sang this song to my girlfriend and now she’s my wife
Videos from Our 2013 Trip to The Galapagos Islands
We were particularly fortunate to witness this Waved #Albatross #Courtship Dance (starting at 8:50)…
#NaturePhotography #Video #Galapagos #Rays #Sealions #Hawks #Owls #Penguins #Boobies, #Albatrosses #Birds
#Exposure to high levels of #ozone significantly #increases #MaleMale #courtship among #FruitFlies while making the #OzoneExposed #males #LessAttractive to #females finds a #NewStudy .
As #OzoneLevels rise due to #industrial #pollution & #anthropogenic activities, it can #harm a number of #species of #insects that rely on #SexDetermining #pheromones to find a suitable mate, it added.
