Blue-Tailed Damselflies (Ischnura elegans) (4)

Blue-Tailed Damselflies (Ischnura elegans) (4)

My photo shows a section of the ‘heart-shape pairing wheel’ formed by a male [it is completely visible here] and a female blue-tailed damselfly during pairing, In this ‘wheel position’ sperm is transferred from the male secondary genitalia between segments 2 and 3 to the female [only the brownish tip of the female’s abdomen can be seen in my image].

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