Mating Troubles - _TNY_7856
So I followed along on a small fishing trip with the family to a group of small tarns known as Rotensjöarna (the Roten lakes) with several species of game fish like charr and brown trout. Personally I of course had no ambition to do any fishing (didn't even purchase a fishing permit) but brought the camera instead.
The day was very warm so the fish weren't really biting and the various dragonflies and damsels had no problems operating at full speed, meaning not many were sitting still.
When walking home on the footbridges just by the water my son spotted these common blue damsels (Enallagma cyathigerum) busy with the mysteries of damselfly mating.
Initially they were on a reed (as seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50379745277/) but then I accidently scared them and they flew straight into a spider web and got stuck!
Obviously feeling guilty, I picked them out of the web and while they were sitting on my fingers, I could remove all of the sticky web from them (there is a little left on the blue male's front leg in the photo) before posing for a shot or two and then they flew off, still in tandem flight.
Mating Troubles - _TNY_7856
So I followed along on a small fishing trip with the family to a group of small tarns known as Rotensjöarna (the Roten lakes) with several species of game fish like charr and brown trout. Personally I of course had no ambition to do any fishing (didn't even purchase a fishing permit) but brought the camera instead.
The day was very warm so the fish weren't really biting and the various dragonflies and damsels had no problems operating at full speed, meaning not many were sitting still.
When walking home on the footbridges just by the water my son spotted these common blue damsels (Enallagma cyathigerum) busy with the mysteries of damselfly mating.
Initially they were on a reed (as seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50379745277/) but then I accidently scared them and they flew straight into a spider web and got stuck!
Obviously feeling guilty, I picked them out of the web and while they were sitting on my fingers, I could remove all of the sticky web from them (there is a little left on the blue male's front leg in the photo) before posing for a shot or two and then they flew off, still in tandem flight.