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Long de 5 centimètres, l'Orthétrum réticulé (Orthetrum cancellatum) est un anisoptère de taille moyenne. Les mâles se reconnaissent facilement à leur abdomen gris-bleu dont l'extrémité est plus sombre et à leurs ailes transparentes, sans marques noires à la base (contrairement à la Libellule fauve). La pruinosité bleutée laisse apercevoir la coloration jaune de l'abdomen sur les côtés. Les jeunes femelles sont jaunâtres puis adoptent une coloration plus terne, beige puis brun (parfois foncé), avec des marques noires longitudinales sur l'abdomen. Les yeux sont gris-vert et le bord antérieur des ailes est jaune. Les ptérostigmas sont noirs et fins. Les femelles possèdent une lame vulvaire.
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The cross-bred Orthetrum (Orthetrum cancellatum) is 5 cm long and is a medium-sized anisopteran. Males are easily recognized by their gray-blue abdomen, which has a darker tip and transparent wings, with no black markings at the base (unlike the Fawn Dragonfly). The bluish pruinosity reveals the yellow color of the abdomen on the sides. The young females are yellowish then adopt a duller, beige then brown (sometimes dark) coloration, with longitudinal black marks on the abdomen. The eyes are gray-green and the anterior edge of the wings is yellow. Pterostigmas are black and fine. Females have a vulvar blade.
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I watched this little guy for awhile in hopes of getting a few good pics. Every few seconds it would take off and do a couple of loops around the twig it was perched on. Finally, it stayed put so I took some shots. Later, during processing I saw that it had captured it's prey!
Spotted in our garden today. Never, ever seen one. Must be global warming because we are seeing stranger and stranger insects all the time now. If anyone knows what this is, please let me know.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday
My first mating of 2017 . A Ischnnura elegans couple is attacked by a male in heat.
Pelea de machos, un macho molesta a una pareja de Ischnnura elegans.
Tahoe Rim Trail, Sierra Nevada mountains, California
ID'd by Dr. Art Shapiro, UC Davis. "The blue is lit in a way that makes the hindwing ventral pattern difficult to make out, but I'm pretty sure it's a female Arrowhead Blue, Glaucopsyche piasus."
Ken Davenport (butterfliesandmoths.org) - same issue with angle of photograph, but accepted as probably arrowhead blue.
Byctiscus betulae (Linnaeus, 1758) = Byctiscus betuleti auct. = Bytiscus betulae (Linnaeus, 1758) = Curculio betulae Linnaeus, 1758, le cigarier ou rhynchite du bouleau.
HMM! This is my addition to this week's theme of "Stone Rhyming Zone".
To complete the metamorphosis to adulthood, insects shed off their exoskeleton in a process called ecdysis (more commonly “moulting”). These shells are rigid and cannot grow like a skin.