Here before you is a pair of copulating damselflies. These are Subarctic Bluets (Coenagrion interrogatum) in a position that might make authors of the Kama Sutra blush.
Well, yes, once I explain the details you'll be elated that you're not a female bluet. But there is some fascinating co-evolution going on in the dragonfly mating system. Females do make choices. At least we think so. Anyway, it'll be a fun post when I get there. Thanks, Rita!
Such is life. Thanks for the thoughts. And photo. Keep on, please.
Will do!
All I can say: so glad I am not a Bluet Damselfly (in this lifetime anyway!). WYF is right!
Well, yes, once I explain the details you'll be elated that you're not a female bluet. But there is some fascinating co-evolution going on in the dragonfly mating system. Females do make choices. At least we think so. Anyway, it'll be a fun post when I get there. Thanks, Rita!
What I love best about Odonata is how they are both beautiful and ruthlessly brutal at the same time (and have been like that for 300 million years)!