#damselflies

[michaelnordeman]

Northern damselfly, AKA spearhead bluet/Coenagrion hastulatum/spjutflickslända. Värmland, Sweden (30 May 2014).

[amoeba-arts]

insect erotica

[rose-lost-her-braincell]

Powdered dancer resting on a leaf

[eyed-hawkmoth]

emerald damselfly (lestes sponsa), male and female

[uncharismatic-fauna]

a couple of lovebugs, a suspicious looking damselfly and a nice spider, raken with a 5£ macro phone clip on lens from: highlands, scotland ♥️

I love that damselfly- he's Investigating

[phasmids]

A beautiful demoiselle damselfly (Calopteryx virgo) on a palm plant in my garden :)

[great-and-small]

This male Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) is one of the best looking winged insects on the planet. These damselflies are very common where I live but the eyes of most passersby slide right over them, you can’t really appreciate their dazzling color until you lean in for a closer look. They’re a great reminder of why you should always stop to investigate and admire any small fluttering bug darting around your feet!

[celestial-games]

DAMSELFLIES

Putting in overtime at the damselfly factory to bring you this collection of silly little bugs that turn into hearts when they pair up, just in time for Valentine's Day :]

Dragonflies may be the bigger and more popular bugs but there is something that I LOVE about damselflies, and where I live there is an abundance of species and it is fairly common to find several species flitting along the water's edge together. Unlike dragonflies though it is impossible to recognize them from a distance, and it takes a lot of dedication to find out what species you're looking at. I tried to include a great many species of all sorts of colors, some cryptic, some easily identifiable, to really try to recreate the joyful experience that is observing damselflies. Maybe there are some species here that you recognize :]

Species included (left to right, top to bottom): 1. Ebony Jewelwing, 2. Great Spreadwing, 3. Desert Firetail, 4. American Rubyspot, 5. Western Red Damsel, 6. Emerald Spreadwing, 7. Chalky Spreadwing, 8. Southern Spreadwing, 9. Cerulean Dancer, 10. Spine-tipped Dancer, 11. Springwater Dancer, 12. Powdered Dancer, 13. Tonto Dancer, 14. Sooty Dancer, 15. Blue-ringed Dancer, 16. Fiery-eyed Dancer, 17. Aztec Dancer, 18. Lavender Dancer, 19. Amethyst Dancer, 20. Kiowa Dancer, 21. Citrine Forktail, 22. Rambur's Forktail, 23. Western Forktail, 24. Black-fronted Forktail, 25. Pacific Forktail, 26. Painted Damsel, 27. Familiar Bluet, 28. Orange Bluet, 29. Double-striped Bluet, 30. Claw-tipped Bluet, 31. Arroyo Bluet, 32. Neotropical Bluet, 33. Blue-winged Helicopter (fun fact: even though dragonflies are generally larger than damselflies, this damselfly has a wingspan greater than that of all living dragonflies, at about 7 inches!!)