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====Displaying==== The male ghost swifts display by hovering directly above vegetation, while occasionally shifting slowly horizontally. The displaying male only occasionally made vertical movements to shift display positions.<ref name="Mallet1984">{{cite journal|last1=Mallet|first1=James |title=Sex roles in the ghost moth Hepialus humuli (L.) and a review of mating in the Hepialidae (Lepidoptera)|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=80|issue=1|year=1984|pages=67β82|issn=0024-4082|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1984.tb02320.x}}</ref> Females are attracted to the displaying males in leks, and once a female chooses a male she will pass within a few centimeters of him.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Turner|first=John R. G.|date=1976-02-01 |title=Sexual behaviour: female swift moth is not the aggressive partner|journal=Animal Behaviour|volume=24|issue=1|pages=188β190|doi=10.1016/S0003-3472(76)80113-3|s2cid=53167316}}</ref> The male will follow the female, who will land and beat her wings, signaling that the male may approach her. The two moths will then [[copulation (zoology)|copulate]].<ref name=":3" />
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