Paddle-tailed Darner Yoga

Posted by mikullashbee on Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:37 pm

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Its always fun to shoot this species in flight. They tend to hoover the most out all our regular Darner species. This pose was an added bonus. Not sure if this is a courting behaviour or something related to their mating habits?
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by wtracyparnell on Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:56 pm

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An excellent flight shot that has it all, great pose, background and detail.

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by Vasanthi Balson on Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:21 pm

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Looks like Gymnastics.
Nice capture. Beautiful background too!

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by swanuck on Wed Jul 30, 2014 6:30 pm

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nice in utero

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by PaiR on Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:20 pm

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Fantastic capture. That is all I can say !!

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by Tom Whelan on Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:15 pm

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Wonderful capture of a unique pose - looks great.

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by Matthew Pugh on Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:05 am

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Hi

Remarkable imo - never seen a pose like this in flight before so I have no idea

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by Peter May on Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:33 am

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Prior to mating, male dragonflies and damselflies must transfer sperm from their gonads at the tip of the abdomen to a receptacle on the ventral side of the second abdominal segment; he will then grab a female behind her head with his terminal appendages to attempt mating (the tandem posture). At some point, she will bend her abdomen forward, while being held by the male behind her head, to extract sperm from his second abdominal segment (the wheel position). You can tell this is a male by the bulge under abdominal segment two. He is probably in the process of transferring sperm in preparation for hooking up with a female.

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by mikullashbee on Thu Jul 31, 2014 5:55 pm

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Thanks for all the positive feedback and to Peter for the description of whats occurring in this position.

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by kevinfeenstra on Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:03 pm

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Awesome action shot!

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by Simonespe on Sat Aug 02, 2014 3:49 am

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Fantastic shot for the beautifull dragonfly

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by Bill Whala on Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:39 pm

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Great flight shot!! Love the pose and background.

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by Carol Clarke on Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:13 am

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Beautifully detailed and fascinating behaviour capture!

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