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Mating Dragonflies - Sympetrum vicinum - male - female
Copyright © 2009 GValHart

Mating Dragonflies - Sympetrum vicinum - Male Female
Benton, PA, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 30, 2009
Any help ID'ing these would be appreciated!

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Contributed by GValHart on 7 September, 2009 - 12:50pm
Last updated 7 September, 2009 - 1:57pm

Here the red male
has the yellow female clasped behind the head with his specially adapted terminal claspers, while the yellow female reaches forward under his abdomen to the secondary genitalia where he has temporarily stored sperm packets.
… john and jane balaban, 7 September, 2009 - 1:18pm login or register to post comments

 
I was completely wrong
about how that all worked! I was looking at it from a mamalian point of view, figuring the one on the bottom was depositing sperm!
Thanks for the lesson!!
You folks always manage to teach me something every time I come around
… GValHart, 7 September, 2009 - 1:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dragonflies.
… john and jane balaban, 7 September, 2009 - 12:50pm login or register to post comments

 
WOW!
That was fast!
Thanks!
… GValHart, 7 September, 2009 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

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