Amazing footage shows two scorpions locked in a mating dance on an island in Costa Rica.

Insect enthusiast Lara Fomina found the creatures while she was night foraging in Guanacaste province.

At first, Lara thought that the two were going for each other’s throats but they were actually trying to create offspring.

Lara said: ''Scorpions are devoted parents so dancing before making babies is very fitting.''

A scorpion can have as many as 100 babies in a single brood. They are born alive, not hatched from eggs like insects.

When they are born, baby scorpions have a very soft outside shell or exoskeleton. They crawl up onto their mother's back and ride there for 10 to 20 days until their exoskeleton gets stiff and hard.