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    Dragonfly sex is a very conspicuous event, easily recognized by the heart-shaped "wheel" formation of mating pairs.


    Dragonfly and damselfly sex is a very conspicuous event, easily recognized by the heart-shaped "wheel" formation of mating pairs. But what else is involved in the mating behavior of these insects?

    Dragonflies and damselflies are closely related insects, which both belong to the insect order Odonata. The two insects display a number of subtle differences, most noticeably their size and rest orientation. That is, damselflies are small, slender and hold their wings over their backs while perching; dragonflies are larger than damselflies and keep their wings outstretched while at rest.

    The insects share similarities in some of their reproductive behaviors, but the mating systems of damselflies are more varied, explained Rhainer Guillermo-Ferreira, an entomologists at São Paulo State University in Brazil.


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    Default Re: Animal Sex: How Dragonflies Do It

    Dragonfly sex?? chuckle chuckle. Evidently ya got too much time on yer hands. ccc.
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    Default Re: Animal Sex: How Dragonflies Do It

    Those were a big LOL for us Kentucky kids... my cousin Ian and me used to go in the creek, looking for weird animals, etc. fishing,
    and we realized that dragonflies are very intelligent. unfortunately we were immature and there were tiny casualties sometimes,
    before we realized they aren't just flies -- their heads and eyes are very large and complicated, and their brain work a lot faster than human brains,
    meaning when they watch tv etc. it doesn't fool them into thinking there is a moving picture.

    thanks for sharing, they are very cute little things -- so many colors and sizes, and most of them are so social, it's weird!

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