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Red Eyes, Eventually - _TNY_5370

For being a large redeye (Erythromma najas), this male doesn't really live up to his name, does he?

 

Nothing's wrong though. It's a teneral specimen, meaning he's fresh out of the larval stage and haven't gotten the time to transform into his full colouration just yet.

 

In a little while, he will be intensely blue - and with eyes that are even more intensely red. Like on this one: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51284482269/

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Uploaded on April 10, 2022
Taken on June 9, 2020