Familiar Bluet Damselfly - Enallagma civile

Familiar Bluet Damselfly - Enallagma civile
Order Odonata / Suborder Zygoptera -- damselflies, demoiselles / Family Coenagrionidae -- narrow-winged damselflies
Live adult dragonflies photographed in the wild at Winfield Mounds Forest Preserve, DuPage County, Illinois, USA.

	Immature Male Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile
	Female Familiar Bluet Female damselflies can morph into different color schemes, in an apparent attempt to defray unwanted sexual advances from males. Male damsels become so confused at times, they attempt to mate with each other. You can read in detail about this at this National Geographic article, Gay Flies.

Female

Male damselfly locks onto the top of the female's thorax

Damsels fly in tandem as female lays eggs on vegetation under the water's surface.

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