English: “Sphex latreillei is a beautiful sphecid wasp that has a very interesting sexual behavior. The female actively reject males from mating with their legs, but when the females came back from hunting with a prey in their legs, the male takes advantage and violently grab the females in the air and throws it in to the ground, were the female can’t reject the male. The photo was taken in central Chile, and shows a couple of wasp mating while the female is holding a tettigonid cricket. The event last only a few seconds, and after that the female leaves the cricket in a subterranean nest to feed his larvae and then go out to hunt again.”