senses and flight response during mating flight response during mating IDOMAL:0002255 IDOMAL:0002255 Mating is initiated with the male and female still in flight. It may end with the pair still in flight or settled on vegetation or on the ground, but usually copulation is completed within seconds. The males of species that mate in flight fly towards a conspecific female when stimulated by her flight tone. idomal_namespace