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Mating Dragonflies

Posted by July 4th, 2008 at 12:00 am

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I love your site!! I just found it and will be using it to help identify some of my insect species I find up here in southwestern Manitoba in Canada. My co-workers have been teasing me lately b/c of my photos of what they call, ‘beetle porn’. I noticed you didn’t have many for the dragonflies so I thought I would send my most lovely one to you…photo that is. And if you care to tell me the species, I would great appreciate that as well, save me from looking it up!
Sherry Lynn Punak-Murphy
Natural Resource Technician/Biologist
Manitoba

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Hi Sherry-Lynn,
Your photo of mating Dragonflies. It truly is wonderful. We are not that adept at exact species identification of Dragonflies. Perhaps a reader will supply us with an answer and perhaps you will do the work on the exact identification and notify us. Please include Dragonfly ID in the subject line.

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  1. dflyiowa wrote:

    Can’t be totally positive from the photo (way the males abdomen is curved), but I would think these are either Cordulia shurtleffii or Dorocordulia libera.

    Posted 22 Jan 2011 at 3:03 pm

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