A small, slender damselfly perched on the edge of a leaf. It has a black body and tail with transparent wings. The body has bright blue stripes, with a blue band running between the eyes.

Collared Threadtail (Prodasineura collaris) spotted at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park, Singapore on 13 April 2025. A small, uncommon, damselfly, but can usually be spotted at that park.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].

#iNaturalist #SIngapore #Insects #Damselflies #Odonata

Spreadwing damselfly clings to a dry vertical twig. Its wings sparkle and its legs glow in the sunlight.

Damselfly shimmers in sunshine #FlyDay #BugSky #insects #damselflies #macro #photography #nature

Two damselflies. The male is blue, the tip of his abdomen is gripping the female at the top of her thorax behind her head. The female is greed; we see mainly the underside of her abdomen which is reaching forward to the underside of the front of his abdomen; this contact is where fertilisation happens.

A mating pair of Azure #damselflies from June 2022 in a park in Swindon. They're quite generalist and will live more or less anywhere with a pond. Very common in back garden micro-ponds. #libellente #UKWildlife #invertebrates

Sixty New Species of Dragonflies Discovered in Africa This is the greatest number of new dragonfly and damselfly species to be formally described at the same time in 130 years

Sixty New Species of Dragonflies Discovered in Africa

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#Dragonflies #Damselflies #Evolution #Ecology #NewSpecies grrlscientist.medium.com/sixty-new-sp...

BioOne. Featured Journal: Odonatologica. Journal cover for Odonatologica featuring an image of a damselfly. S2O logo. Subscribe to Open: Equitable Open Access.

Spotlight on #S2O pilot partner Odonatologica, publishing original articles in all fields of #odonatology.

Discover more about Odonatologica: bio-one.co/ODON
Learn about S2O: bio-one.co/s2o

#dragonflies #damselflies #insects #Odonata #entomology

Looking back over my photos from 2024 and I find this. I remember it well as I was out looking for damselflies at the time and remember feeling sorry for the poor thing. Fantastic spider though 🙂
#arachnids #spiders #Damselflies #unlucky

A large male mute swan has his beak resting atop duckweed in a marsh while a large fly rests on his forehead and a damselfly has hitched a ride on his wing.

#birdoftheday #birdsandbugs #birds #nature #swans #damselflies

Pretty sure the damselfly is some sort of bluet species, there is also a biggish fly on the swan's head. Swan was enjoying showing the cygnets how to enjoy duckweed, pretty sure they call it swanweed.

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a vein of light in the breeze a blue damselfly flickers

Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit 36.1 (February 2026 issue) ed. Iliyana Stoyanova
#haiku #monostich #monoku #damselflies

See the Feb 2026, Worldwide Dragonfly Association #WDA „Odonate of the month“, featuring biologist Kate Montana.

We are pleased to receive submissions under: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ; covering the rare and fascinating from across the globe.

#odonates #damselflies #dragonflies #biodiversity

Damselflies spend part of their lives as larval carnivores in streams, rivers, and lakes, so the adults are usually found near water. This is an American ruby spot damselfly in Arizona. #damselflies #insects #macro #photography #Arizona

Esta linda donzelinha não se importou em pousar para mim.

O vermelho era mais para cor de sangue.

#bugs #damselflies

#DRAGONFLIES AND #DAMSELFLIES ORDER ODONATA MATH BANBELPLISA TWITH

#DRAGONFLIES AND #DAMSELFLIES

ORDER ODONATA

MATH

BANBELPLISA TWITH

A triple hit of #dragonflies and #damselflies this afternoon.
Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum)
Pair of Large Red Damselflies (Pyrrhosoma nymphala)
Four Spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)

@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
@lincswildlife.bsky.social

#summer #lincolnshire #wildlife #nature

Indian Violet Dartlet (Aciagrion approximans) for #macromonday.
Meghalaya, Oct 2025.

#ThePhotoHour #Mondayblues #natgeoyourshot
#macrophotography #niffeature2025 #biodiversity #entomology #insectsofindia #macrohour #damselflies #odonates #nature @royentsoc.bsky.social @odonataamericas.bsky.social

Siberian winterdamsel (Sympecma paedisca), hugging a cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus). Macro photo by Beatrice Heinze.

Siberian winterdamsel (Sympecma paedisca), hugging a cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus).

Macro shot taken with a Canon EOS 750D and macrolens Sigma 105mm F2.8 DG Macro HSM.

#macro #photography #art #nature #PhotographersOfBluesky #insects #PhotographersUnite #BlueSkyArtShow #damselflies

Classification of Insects - Odonata Azure damselfly (Coenagrion puella) (c) Lee Frost 2024

🎄 Today's #InsectAdvent is dedicated to ancient aerial hunters, #Odonata - #dragonflies & #damselflies 🐉🪰

#FunFact: Dragonflies are stout & fierce while damselflies are more delicate. You can tell their larvae apart by the placement of their gills.

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The Wordwide Dragonfly Association #WDA with its 2nd ever „Odonate of the month“ post, featuring the ecologist Rassim Khelifa.

We are very happy about submissions, covering the rare and fascinating from across the globe.

#odonates #damselflies #dragonflies #biodiversity

🇫🇷 Des demoiselles élégantes - Qui embellissent les mares
 #Coenagrion #Demoiselles #Pollinisation #RégulationÉcologique #BiodiversitéDesMares

🇬🇧 Elegant Damselflies Adorning Ponds
#Coenagrion #Damselflies #Pollination #EcologicalRegulation #PondBiodiversity

Elegant forest damselflies taken in one of the latest rain forest in Sri Lanka (Sinharaja)

#wildlifephotography #wildlife #photography #nikon #nikonphotography #damselflies #rainforest #sinharaja #srilanka #nature

Summer Vibes #naturelovers #summervibes #summer #Colorado #nature #dragonflies #damselflies #turtles #naturevibes youtube.com/shorts/7fRK0...

Pseudostigmatidae are back! Great talk on #damselflies from Laura Sutherland! #GEODE #SysEB #Entsoc25

Pseudostigmatidae are back! Great talk on #damselflies from Laura Sutherland! #GEODE #SysEB #Entsoc25

@chrisdbeatty.bsky.social give a great talk on Mnais #damselflies! #Entsoc25 #SysEB

✨Proudly presenting our first odonate of the month! ✨

With lots of fun facts & species info, we hope to bring these #ancient, important & beautiful, yet increasingly #threatened, creatures to broader attention.

+feat. the enthusiasts behind #Odonatology
#WDA #Dragonflies #Damselflies #Biodiversity

New #OpenAccess research in #RESSystematicEnt

Diversification and #evolution of Hawaiian #Megalagrion #damselflies (#Pinapinao, #Odonata: Coenagrionidae)

#Phylogenetics #MRCA #Biogeography #AdaptiveRadiation
@gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social

ALSO a huge thanks to @jademasonwrites.bsky.social @fromcarly.bsky.social @adamreisinger.com & @maggiesbooks.bsky.social (#camprevpit #damselflies cabin!!) for rding my pgs & helping get a bit more emotions/interiority on the page before I submitted to #10queries. I think that took it over the top!

✨ Freshwater Friday spotlight: Damselflies! ✨

Part of our Extended Riverfly family, damselflies are slender, agile hunters that spend most of their lives underwater as larvae. 💦

#FreshwaterFriday #RiverflyPartnership #CitizenScience #Damselflies #FreshwaterInvertebrates

Here's one to emphasize the swamp areas around here, a Duckweed Firetail. Their bright red contrast to the plants they land on makes them easy to see, as they often perch on floating aquatic plants.

#Bugs #Damselflies #Swamps #Nature #iNaturalist

Now for something different, like this Ebony Jewelwing damselfly. I found these in a ravine, at the bottom with the cool air and flowing water. I find its choice of habitat very agreeable.

#Bugs #Damselflies #Nature #iNaturalist

It is always cool when I find something new to me to photograph. This is an American Rubyspot Damselfly
#damselfly #insects #damselflies #nature #natureinspired #naturebeauty #wildlife