Yesterday we went for a walk. We brought along the macro lens to take pictures of some mushrooms but when we got to the small pond we saw a red dragonfly resting on a stone and took a picture of the dragonfly.
Then we noticed a big blue and green dragonfly examining the reeds along the shore, occasionally fighting with another large dragonfly. We hunkered down and took about a hundred pictures. And finally the dragonfly decided to land right in front of us, posing for the longest time, looking as if it was depositing eggs. It was amazing.
A dragonfly portrait, eyes looking like a fantastic helmet
Dragonfly looking the other side
15 second video
In the images above you can see the appendages at the end of the tail which makes me think this is a female.
For comparison, see the dragonfly anatomy from Wikipedia, by M. A. Broussard - own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, link:
rdf:RDF dc:formatimage/svg+xml/dc:format /cc:Work /rdf:RDF Lateral Carina Intersegmental Annulus Hind Wing Basal Plate Tibia Vulvular Spine Stylus Cercus Forewing Femur Tarsus Mesepisternum Labium Labrum Anteclypeus Postclypeus Frons Antenna Ocellus Vertex Compound Eye Prothorax Mesepimeron HEAD THORAX ABDOMEN ♀ Transverse Carina S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9 S10 Metepisternum Metepimeron Mandible ♂ Cercus / Clasper Paraproct Epiproct Nodus Stigma DRAGONFLY ANATOMY Ovipositor (ANISOPTERA)
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