In this picture are five E. tiaratum. As this species prefers to sit still during the daytime, it was very easy to put them close together on some bramble leaves and make a picture.
Far left is an immature male, which does not yet have fully grown wings covering its abdomen, and is therefore still able to curl it like all E. tiaratum like to do. The mature male in the top of the picture is kept straight because of its large, folded wings. It has just fertilised the enormous female, right. The spermatophore that the male has left behind, a white globule with a tube, temporarily attached near the tip of her abdomen, is clearly visible. To the left of the mature male is a baby, about a week old, of which the sex cannot yet be determined until its first molt. To the right of the mature male is a young female.
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