[Odonata-l] oviposition photos

[Glenn Corbiere]

Dennis,
   
  Sorry for the delay in responding. I had it in the back of my mind for the past week or so, and finally am getting around to answering. I have three photos of Lestes congener ovipositing. All three are tandem pairs, and all are on dead stalks. Here's one:
   
  http://www.dragonhunter.net/spottedspreadwing_p.html
   
   
  The two others are not on my web site, but I'll send them to you shortly. 
   
  Glenn Corbiere
   
  

Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson at comcast.net> wrote:
  Hello, all.  

  Last year I sent a note that I was amazed at how few photos there were on the internet of endophytic Odonata in the act of oviposition, and that is still true. I just performed a Google Image Search on several species of Lestes and found surprisingly few photos of them ovipositing, not even a single one in some species. I was trying to test the hypothesis that Lestes congener usually oviposits in dead stems, most other North American species in live stems, and the internet was inadequate for such a purpose.
  

  It must not be easy to get these photos, as I note I have rather few myself, but I hope all of you who photograph Odonata will think of this, as you get a lot of information from a photo of an ovipositing pair, and photos of 25 ovipositing pairs from all over the range of a species would probably give a good summary at least of the substrates that it uses.
  

  Several people sent me photos of ovipositing odonates last time I mentioned this, which were much appreciated. I'm not asking for more photos, just trying to generate an interest in taking them and, for those of you with internet photo sites, posting them.
  

  Dennis
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  Dennis Paulson
  1724 NE 98 St.
  Seattle, WA 98115
  206-528-1382
  dennispaulson at comcast.net
  





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