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Ischnura senegalensis
Location : Mizunomori Botanical Garden.
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Recently emerged damselfly - yet to take its first flight. Body colour will develop in a couple of days.
Spreadwing damselflies are in in the family Lestidae and many are quite similar in appearance. This was my first sighting of this delicate appearing damselfly. I think this could be a Sweetflag Spreadwing, but I'm not 100% sure. Please me know if you're aware of its ID. Thank you!
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Scarce Blue Tailed Damselfly (male)
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France; Puy-de-Dôme, La Godivelle 8/6/21.
Males, Northern Damselfly (Coenagrion hastulatum); notes for my own future online reference.
Coenagrion 'spur' (lacking on Common Blue)
Antehumeral stripes narrow
S9 has two black spots (messy on most of these)
S2 pattern with black line along each side of central 'arrowhead'. Again not perfect on some of these individuals
Underside of eyes more turquoise > light green
Of the few males we saw here, none showed anything like a perfect 'spear' or 'arrowhead'.
Damselfly Mating Battle.
Male Familiar Bluets fighting over a floating leaf while their mates are busy with laying eggs. Taken at Kardon Park Ponds in Chester County, PA.
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During the further experimentation with the Nikon 1V2 and the 1 Nikkor 18,5mm lens, I found a red damselfly near a lake. I'm pretty happy with the close up performance!
Taken in Lichfield.
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More insect photography with the 400mm end of the Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS II USM EF Lens. I hope you are all safe and well in these strange times. I know photography has been the best medicine for me. Take care.
It took the damselfly about 5 minutes to shed its skin and emerge into its final form. The stubby wings take another 10 mins or so to inflate and the damselfly will rest for a few more minutes before taking its first feeble flight. At this stage, it is very vulnerable to birds and was hiding deep in the foliage. Over the next few days it will develop its colours. Having spent a year or two underwater growing from a deposited egg, it will only live a few weeks as an adult. hopefully surviving long enough to breed. The empty skin shell is called an exuvium. Hundreds of exuvia were visible in the reed beds.
Last shot from the wetlands. It is wet at home today too. Flickr is speeding up a little and not giving me so many error messages.
Notice the small Common Bluet (Enallagma cyathigerum), a blue damselfly, on the back of the Spiny Softshell (Apalone spinifera), one of the largest freshwater turtle species in North America. Just the second time I’ve seen a Spiny Softshell in Riverstone Wetlands, Sugar Land, Texas. Usually we have Red-eared Sliders.
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Damselflies and Dragonflies adopt this configuration when mating. They will stay together for hours, often flying around from perch to perch. When the female is inseminated, they will crawl down the reed until the female is almost submerged. She will deposit her eggs which can take up to five years to develop, going through several metamorphoses. The nymphs are extremely voracious, literally eating anything that moves. When ready, the nymph will climb out of the water and when dry, the back will split and a new damsel or dragonfly will emerge. Taken at Sidings Lane Nature Reserve, Rainford, UK
Taken at Barton Marina, Staffordshire.
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I noticed the blue colour and then realized it was a pair of damselflies. They were mating within a clump of wild yellow clover.
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