Food Takes Precedence - _TNY_9188
Walking back along a small forest road outside Härnösand, Sweden after a nice photo walk, I saw plenty of these guys floating among the grass and branches next to the road.
None of them were the least bit interested in staying still long enough for me to manage to take any photos of them - until this one. It's a male spearhead bluet (Coenagrion hastulatum) and the reason it didn't fly off was that it had caught itself some sort of small Hemipteran which was more important to devour.
Food Takes Precedence - _TNY_9188
Walking back along a small forest road outside Härnösand, Sweden after a nice photo walk, I saw plenty of these guys floating among the grass and branches next to the road.
None of them were the least bit interested in staying still long enough for me to manage to take any photos of them - until this one. It's a male spearhead bluet (Coenagrion hastulatum) and the reason it didn't fly off was that it had caught itself some sort of small Hemipteran which was more important to devour.