dainty damselfly dainty bluet coenagrion scitulum

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dainty damselfly
A pair in tandem while the female oviposits. The male has a 'wine glass' shape on s2 (a bit like variable damselfly). Segments 5,6,7 of the male abdomen are roughly two-and-a-half black. The female body is much darker. Both sexes have an eye-bar and unbroken thoracic stripes.


ovipositing
dainty
they're quite a sociable species
dainty
the pair stays together while the female lays onto floating debris


in tandem
dainty damselflies