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Damselfly is the title of a 2012 novel in the Faeble series by S. L. Naeole [70] and of a 2018 novel by Chandra Prasad. [71] Modern poems with the damselfly as a subject include a 1994 poem by August Kleinzahler, which contains the lines "And that blue there, cobalt / a moment, then iridescent, / fragile as a lady's pin / hovering above the ...
Mature adults are seen frequently mating and laying eggs. It usually stays close to the vegetation around the pond or lake and flies from May to September. This common damselfly looks very like a common blue damselfly. The behaviour is also different - unlike common blues, they rarely fly out over large stretches of water.
The adult damselflies prey on small flying insects, caught using their legs like a basket to scoop the prey up while flying, or insects taken from leaves. Damselfly nymphs are aquatic, and prey on small aquatic insects or other aquatic larvae. A male can try to interfere with a mating pair, by attaching itself to the mating male.
The great red damselfly is often the first damselfly to emerge, usually in April or May. Adults can be found until September, according to locality. [4] Immature adults mature in about two weeks. Mating occurs in vegetation. [6] The female during the laying of eggs is accompanied by the male, [6] she immerses into the water only the abdomen ...
The behavior of flying earwig Hawaiian damselfly was not well-observed. According to patterns of other damselfly species, when mating, damselfly males grasp the females with their abdominal appendages, forming in tandem. This behavior helps defend their mates against rival males.
Enallagma cyathigerum (common blue damselfly or common bluet) is a species found mainly between latitudes 40°N and 72°N; [2] It is widely distributed in the Palearctic, common in all European countries (including Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland, etc.) and in Asia in Turkey, Iran, Russia, and South Korea. [1]
Calopterygidae is a family of damselflies, in the suborder Zygoptera. [2] They are commonly known as the broad-winged damselflies, [3] demoiselles, or jewelwings. [4] These rather large damselflies have wingspans of 50–80 mm (compared to about 44 mm in the common bluetail damselfly, Ischnura elegans), are often metallic-coloured, and can be differentiated from other damselflies by the ...
Rambur's forktail (Ischnura ramburii) is a member of the damselfly family Coenagrionidae.Males are green with blue on abdominal segments 8 and 9. Females are orange-red, olive green, or similar to males in coloration. [3]