Date Added
July 17, 2022
09:32 PM MSK
Description
Comparison of females of two similar species living on the same reservoir.
Right and bottom - Aeshna soneharai
Top and left - Aeshna mixta
Date Added
September 27, 2022
05:01 AM UTC
Date Added
October 15, 2020
06:13 PM MSK
Date Added
January 12, 2024
11:16 PM +07
Description
identified by long male paraprocts (and a straight pronotum hind lobe)
Date Added
January 12, 2024
06:53 PM MSK
Date Added
January 12, 2024
06:14 PM MSK
Date Added
July 12, 2023
08:38 AM UTC
Date Added
July 15, 2023
12:03 PM UTC
Date Added
October 5, 2023
07:35 PM +07
Date Added
October 5, 2023
07:51 PM +07
Date Added
January 7, 2024
05:32 PM MSK
Date Added
October 30, 2023
05:31 PM MSK
Date Added
October 31, 2023
10:53 PM MSK
Date Added
October 31, 2023
09:42 AM MSK
Date Added
January 7, 2024
12:46 PM MSK
Date Added
January 3, 2024
10:29 PM +05
Date Added
November 21, 2023
09:45 AM MSK
Date Added
November 23, 2023
06:30 AM UTC
Date Added
January 1, 2024
07:23 PM MSK
Date Added
January 1, 2024
07:33 PM MSK
Description
Male Lestes sponsa in tandem with a young Sympecma paedisca.
On the right is a male Erythromma najas.
Date Added
December 3, 2023
12:43 PM +07
Date Added
December 29, 2023
09:07 PM MSK
Date Added
December 3, 2023
09:24 AM MSK
Description
The first observation in the Moscow region
Date Added
December 3, 2023
06:12 PM UTC
Date Added
December 3, 2023
07:12 PM UTC
Description
Молодой самец, недавно перелинявший на имаго.
What
Nomad
(Sympetrum fonscolombii)
Date Added
December 4, 2023
12:42 PM MSK
Date Added
December 4, 2023
02:20 PM MSK
Date Added
December 5, 2023
03:19 PM MSK
Date Added
December 8, 2023
12:02 PM MSK
Date Added
December 8, 2023
06:03 PM UTC
Date Added
December 10, 2023
10:04 AM UTC
Date Added
December 21, 2023
07:49 PM MSK
Date Added
December 15, 2023
09:43 AM MSK
Date Added
December 15, 2023
09:45 AM MSK
Date Added
November 3, 2023
11:24 PM +07
Date Added
November 4, 2023
09:26 AM MSK
Date Added
October 7, 2023
09:49 AM MSK
Date Added
October 18, 2023
12:59 PM MSK
Description
Comparison of exuviae. On the left is Aeshna juncea, on the right A. crenata.
Date Added
October 26, 2023
03:23 PM MSK
Date Added
October 26, 2023
05:22 PM MSK
Date Added
September 30, 2023
11:05 PM +07
Date Added
October 16, 2023
03:43 PM MSK
Date Added
October 10, 2023
09:27 PM HST
Date Added
September 20, 2023
05:03 PM +05
Date Added
September 11, 2023
05:31 PM +09
Date Added
September 11, 2023
02:49 PM +07
Date Added
September 10, 2023
09:34 PM MSK
Date Added
September 7, 2023
10:45 PM CEST
Date Added
September 3, 2023
05:21 PM MSK
Date Added
August 27, 2023
02:32 AM UTC
Date Added
August 26, 2023
10:30 AM +07
Date Added
November 22, 2020
08:46 PM MSK
Date Added
August 23, 2020
05:05 PM MSK
Description
They lay near the highway in a mix with the remains of A. viridis and A. grandis. In size, it is larger than both of these. The venation of the wings almost perfectly fits in A. serrata, only the brown and not the yellow costa confuses (but the wing was photographed inside out...). I will be happy to confirm the ID (this species has not been registered in the Vladimir region since 2005) or a reasoned refutation :)
Date Added
August 24, 2023
01:53 PM MSK
Date Added
July 23, 2022
11:19 PM MSK
Date Added
June 14, 2023
07:56 AM HST
Date Added
August 21, 2023
06:52 PM CEST
Date Added
February 26, 2023
01:28 PM MSK
Date Added
February 26, 2023
01:37 PM MSK
Date Added
June 17, 2023
10:09 PM WIB
Date Added
June 17, 2023
10:09 PM WIB
Date Added
June 17, 2023
10:09 PM WIB
Date Added
June 24, 2023
05:36 AM UTC
Date Added
July 2, 2023
01:05 PM UTC
Date Added
August 20, 2023
12:15 PM UTC
Date Added
September 1, 2019
10:57 PM HST
Date Added
November 20, 2016
08:35 PM CET
Description
A male Aeshna grandis caught a female of Libellula quadrimaculata in tandem.
July 2016.
Asby, Östergötland, Sweden.
What
Nomad
(Sympetrum fonscolombii)
Date Added
November 4, 2021
12:13 PM CET
Date Added
February 21, 2018
05:00 AM CET
Description
A male damselfly lands on top of a male dragonfly, and tries to form a tandem. I have more pictures, but unfortunately the damselfly is more or less blurred by movements, as I opted for a small aperture just before the damselfly appeared.
May 2011, Rössjöholm, Sweden.
Date Added
November 21, 2018
01:37 PM CET
Date Added
August 19, 2023
11:24 AM MSK
Date Added
August 20, 2023
11:01 AM CEST
Date Added
August 19, 2023
12:11 PM UTC
Date Added
August 18, 2023
09:53 PM MSK
What
Nomad
(Sympetrum fonscolombii)
Date Added
August 18, 2023
05:00 PM +05
Date Added
August 17, 2023
08:58 PM UTC
Date Added
August 17, 2023
03:22 AM SST
Date Added
November 15, 2020
06:28 PM AEST
Description
I present to you: the largest dragonfly in the world, featuring my face for size comparison! :P Photos simply don't convey its sheer size and bulk but hopefully having something for comparison helps.
Anyway, story time! This guy was flying around erratically for at least an hour and a half since we arrived - I assume due to the missing wing half. I hadn't seen it myself but a couple of my friends had, and it somehow hit me in the side of the head and quickly flew off. :P
Anyway, while we were all chilling around the river, it decided to fly straight into the waterfall (in the background in pic 3) and was promptly swept downstream. What else could I do?? I jumped in and chased after it! 😂
As you can tell from the photos, my swim was successful, and I ended up with the most enormous dragonfly I have ever seen right before me. :P I can't even properly describe how enormously huge it was. And those amazing cerci! I gave it some time to dry off, but being humid tropical Queensland, it wasn't happening very quickly. It was more than happy to sit on my hand and so I wondered if it would prefer somewhere a bit higher and drier :P
So that is how it ended up on my face! As it dried and we were plagued by march flies, the obvious solution was to give him one to eat. He accepted it gratefully and somehow ate the entire thing in a single bite. Hopefully that goes a way into showing just how huge and formidable these guys are! Not content, he then sliced his huge mandibles into my nose -_- and had to be gently prized off. He slowly lapped up blood for a while after but luckily didn't do any more biting! If I squint in the mirror I can still see a faint line there now :P
He sat for about an hour before we had to leave and I left him on a shrub. I hope he was okay with half a wing missing, but there wasn't much else I could do. All in all one of the best experiences of my life! :D
First photo is by Haley Harding because I am incapable of taking selfies :P
Date Added
June 1, 2023
05:06 PM UTC
Date Added
August 16, 2023
10:39 PM +07
Date Added
January 14, 2021
11:12 AM MSK
Description
The first find in Russia after the description of the species by Bartenev in 1929 from the vicinity of Sochi (near Lake Kardyvach).
Date Added
October 21, 2021
09:39 PM MSK
Description
Comparison of species.
left Aeshna serrata
On the right is Aeshna crenata
Date Added
October 3, 2022
03:51 PM MSK
Date Added
June 25, 2022
03:50 PM MSK
Date Added
January 7, 2020
02:31 AM SST
Description
Стрелка Изящная (Ischnura elegans). Самка.
Самец другого вида - Лютки-Невесты (Lestes sponsa). Перепутал невесту.
Date Added
September 17, 2021
08:27 AM UTC
Date Added
August 15, 2023
09:45 PM +06
Date Added
June 22, 2019
05:24 AM HST
Date Added
September 17, 2018
02:19 AM UTC
Date Added
August 12, 2023
11:54 AM UTC
Date Added
August 13, 2023
08:59 PM +05
Date Added
August 13, 2023
12:33 AM MSK
Date Added
May 29, 2022
11:24 AM UTC
Date Added
July 31, 2023
02:54 PM CEST
Date Added
July 28, 2023
12:58 PM CEST
Date Added
August 9, 2023
10:55 PM MSK
Date Added
August 10, 2023
11:31 AM UTC
Date Added
August 8, 2023
12:24 PM UTC
Date Added
August 8, 2023
09:45 PM MSK
Date Added
August 8, 2023
03:38 AM UTC