![File:Large red Damsels. Pyrrhosoma nymphula. mate guarding whilst laying - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Large red Damsels. Pyrrhosoma nymphula. mate guarding whilst laying - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Large_red_Damsels._Pyrrhosoma_nymphula._mate_guarding_whilst_laying_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg)
File:Large red Damsels. Pyrrhosoma nymphula. mate guarding whilst laying - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
![The moggee in this example is performing mate guarding against Connor Murphy. | Mogging | Know Your Meme The moggee in this example is performing mate guarding against Connor Murphy. | Mogging | Know Your Meme](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/554/254/fa4.gif)
The moggee in this example is performing mate guarding against Connor Murphy. | Mogging | Know Your Meme
![Unilateral chromatic and postural signaling during mate guarding. A,... | Download Scientific Diagram Unilateral chromatic and postural signaling during mate guarding. A,... | Download Scientific Diagram](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316631863/figure/fig1/AS:724607971639296@1549771411559/Unilateral-chromatic-and-postural-signaling-during-mate-guarding-A-Male-2-intruder-and.png)
Unilateral chromatic and postural signaling during mate guarding. A,... | Download Scientific Diagram
![File:Orange Featherleg male 'mate-guarding'. Platycnemis acutipennis - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Orange Featherleg male 'mate-guarding'. Platycnemis acutipennis - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Orange_Featherleg_male_%27mate-guarding%27._Platycnemis_acutipennis_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg/2372px-Orange_Featherleg_male_%27mate-guarding%27._Platycnemis_acutipennis_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg)
File:Orange Featherleg male 'mate-guarding'. Platycnemis acutipennis - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
![Relationship between post-copulatory mate guarding intensity (number of... | Download Scientific Diagram Relationship between post-copulatory mate guarding intensity (number of... | Download Scientific Diagram](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226057754/figure/fig2/AS:393711629422598@1470879575904/Relationship-between-post-copulatory-mate-guarding-intensity-number-of-judders-and-whips.png)
Relationship between post-copulatory mate guarding intensity (number of... | Download Scientific Diagram
![Disentangling a shared trait: male control over mate guarding duration revealed by a mate exchange experiment | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Disentangling a shared trait: male control over mate guarding duration revealed by a mate exchange experiment | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology](https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs00265-020-02832-1/MediaObjects/265_2020_2832_Fig1_HTML.png)
Disentangling a shared trait: male control over mate guarding duration revealed by a mate exchange experiment | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
![Remarkable mate guarding behavior of the small water strider, Microvelia iriomotensis (Heteroptera: Veliidae) | Ecology & Evolution Community Remarkable mate guarding behavior of the small water strider, Microvelia iriomotensis (Heteroptera: Veliidae) | Ecology & Evolution Community](https://images.zapnito.com/users/657123/posters/780c450f-530b-4894-a0e0-f2be35e0b893_large.jpeg)
Remarkable mate guarding behavior of the small water strider, Microvelia iriomotensis (Heteroptera: Veliidae) | Ecology & Evolution Community
![Multimedia Gallery - An adult male mate-guarding a fertile female (note the sexual swelling) during a sexual consortship. | NSF - National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery - An adult male mate-guarding a fertile female (note the sexual swelling) during a sexual consortship. | NSF - National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/boss_man2_h.jpg)