This beautiful dragonfly spent several hours flirting with his girlfriend yesterday. He flew back and forth from this perch in my garden. When I got too close, he actually tried to chase me away by charging my chest. Some trivia about dragonflies is that the males have the ability to remove a rival male’s sperm from the female in order to ensure their own sperm is available to fertilize the eggs. Female have the ability to store sperm for long periods of time without fertilizing eggs. Eggs are fertilized immediately before oviposition. As a fertility specialist in my previous career, I find this interesting and amazing. The second picture is the less colorful female. Here is a short video of Mr. Dragonfly flirting.
The common name is Widow Skimmer and the scientific name is Libellula luctuosa
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