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[acarinarium]

I was in the mood for some bug doodles

Feel free to give suggestions for more

[herpsandbirds]

Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo), male, family Calopterygidae, UK

photograph by Kim Schofield

[midwest2-bug-edition]

Hey! I made a post on my other blog about my journey in the Newport Wetlands! I wanted to post some of the smaller life I photographed!

These were the insects I was able to get pics of! Some kind of damselfly and a green larvae hanging from a thread!

Here we have a puffball mushroom, cancer root, and what I believe is slime mold!

[ronthafrog]

little homie lookin’ very content with his meal

[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!!)

[onenicebugperday]

Orange-tailed marsh dart, Ceriagrion cerinorubellum, Coenagrionidae

Found throughout South and Southeastern Asia

Photo 1 by bronzecky, 2-3 by budak, and 4 by christojo

[snototter]

An azure hawker (Aeshna caerulea) in Scotland, UK

by Iain H Leach

[dailybugfacts]

Would you share some facts about european dragonflies?

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Did you know that the Azure Hawker (Aeshna caerulea) is a dragonfly native to northern Europe?

Their azure marks glisten when basking in the sun, as they are wont to do.

The abdominal eyespots on males will often change from blue to purple depending on the weather and as temperatures decrease.

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Photo by Jane Turner of the British Dragonfly Society

[platycryptus]

a twelve-spotted skimmer (Libellula pulchella) staking out his territory by a pond

(Massachusetts, 8/29/24)

[aquatic-insects-enthousiast]

I’m a little bit obsessed with damselfly nymphs which I. Didn’t take any pictures of on Friday but here’s some bugs from this Friday.

Dragonfly nymphs I caught infinitely while hunting for beetle larvae… why are they so cute. Their eyes are so. I love them when you catch them they just skitter into a position and freeze then start trying to hide again

Gerridae which I wanted because my last one is preserved Mid-Bite by a dytiscid larvae so this one’s nice for studying. I’m a big fan of how the local ones look fancy because they’re black and white like they’re in a suit

And then infinite belostomatids I couldn’t avoid catching who bit the shit out of me while I tried to release them

Bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs thered bugs in the water and I love them

[hexiva]

This might be the biggest bug I've ever seen in the wild. It was sitting on a bush right by the sidewalk on the street I live on . . . it came to visit me.

@onenicebugperday this bug was so nice.

[miyrumiyru]

She is a literal full goth but he only took half goth.

(M) 검은물잠자리 (Atrocalopteryx atrata)

[wild-e-eep]

Beautiful demoiselle - Calopteryx virgo.

iNaturalist observation 283570314

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Ebony jewelwing?

Sure! It's been some time since I did this one.

Damselflies always look like very friendly aliens to me :)

[celestial-games]

First dragonfly pixel art :] should I make more dragonflies? Which species should I make?

Flame skimmer , Blue Dasher

[kas-e]

Green Eyed Dragonfly.