Familiar Bluet Damselfly - Enallagma civile
Order Odonata / Suborder Zygoptera -- damselflies, demoiselles / Family Coenagrionidae -- narrow-winged damselflies
Live adult dragonflies photographed in the wild at Winfield Mounds Forest Preserve, DuPage County, Illinois, USA.


Immature Male Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile

Female Familiar Bluet

Female damselflies can morph into different color schemes, in an apparent attempt to defray unwanted sexual advances from males. Male damsels become so confused at times, they attempt to mate with each other. You can read in detail about this at this National Geographic article, Gay Flies.

 


Damsels fly in tandem as female lays eggs on vegetation under the water's surface.


Male damselfly locks onto the top of the female's thorax
             
 
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