What species bug is this ?

[Benny Pedersen]

http://fineraw.com/stuff/free/8460wq60.jpg

What species bug is this ?

Shot yesterday at focal 400 mm. I deleted
it from my camera because I wanted a better
shot but then it fly away so I had to recover
both shots from my mem card.

Benny

[vawitt]

Looks like some kind of dragonfly with its wings folded back?

[Mack]

a damselfly perhaps?

[Benny Pedersen]

Looks like some kind of dragonfly with its wings folded back?

Yes a red dragonfly with 3 legs on each side and it also have a black spot on both the 2 left wings.

Maybe dragonflys with folded back wings are rare ?

[Mack]

I am sticking with Damselfly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damselfly)


Don

[Tina_B]

I also think it is a damselfly. Dragonfly wings do not lay back to the body and damselfly wings lay back along the body when not in use.

[vawitt]

I did not know this. This forum is just chock-full of information! :)

I also think it is a damselfly. Dragonfly wings do not lay back to the body and damselfly wings lay back along the body when not in use.

[JohnnyN]

I took this of a red dragonfly and it looks completely different.
http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1yWEr0XjvKbdpy6vtNTph5KZwbtCpj0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1yWEr0XjvKbdpy6vtNTph5KZwbtCpj0)

[Benny Pedersen]

Thanks Don and Tina + others...

After a visit to dragonflyhawker.com
I now think it's a "Large red damselfly".

Now I only have to figure out about if it
should be normal here in Denmark, or if it's a new visitor here...

Benny,
PS: Shot in RAW at focal 400 mm (Not using tripod).

The photo is 12 mega pixels large so the bug fit outside my monitor - I had to resize it very much...

[Chuck S.]

Definitely a damselfly, and it does appear to be large and red...:D

Great photo, Benny!

[TonyW]

Definitely a Pyrrhosoma nymphula and it looks like a male to me :D

Some great pics here (caution - shows explicit details of ovipositing ;))

http://www.dragonflysoc.org.uk/pynym.html

Tony

[Ellen]

Great link Tony! Thanks also for the ovipositing warning. Now we need to find out just how a male damselfly deals with gender identity issues.

[billz]

Now we need to find out just how a male damselfly deals with gender identity issues.

By dressing in drag-onfly? Sorry, ... not that there would be anything wrong with that.:o

Bill

[kim2900]

Bill! Excellent come-back! (You took the words right out of my own Seinfeldian mouth!!!) hmmmm.... I wonder if his mother made him wear culottes as a child??? :p

[Benny Pedersen]

Great link Tony! Thanks also for the ovipositing warning. Now we need to find out just how a male damselfly deals with gender identity issues.

Hi all

Below is the answer (in Danish) that I got from the museum:

forestiller rød vandnymfe, som er en meget almindelig guldsmed af den underorden, der kaldes vandnymfer.

What they say is that it's named "rød vandnymfe" (red water-nymfe) and is a very common dragon fly under vandnymfer (water-nymfer).

So what we had never seen, should be very common. :confused:

Benny,
Hmm, Wonder if I can do the ovipositing thing using my feet... :eek:

[Tom K]

Hey Benny,

Never mind his wings, did you check his teeth ?? :p

Tom :D