#spreadwings

[pogomcl]

Checquered Skipper, Carterocephalus palaemon Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/ 7.1 1/200 isio: 200 Milovice, Czech Republic 6/11/2023

#Skippers #hesperiidae #Spreadwings #butterflies #saveButterflies #lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands #insect #insectphotography #macrophotography #canon

[astroshubham]

SpReAd YoUr WiNgS AnD uNlEaSh YoUr HiDdEn PoWeR Nice instant quote #by #verma #sv #quotes #birds #birdphotography #birdnation #birdlover #livelikeabird #wingsofimagination #flylikeabird #unleashpotential #powerinside #photooftheday #instabird #spreadwings #flywithwings (at Bird Land) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeV2KWnvFnp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#by #verma #sv #quotes #birds #birdphotography #birdnation #birdlover #livelikeabird #wingsofimagination #flylikeabird #unleashpotential #powerinside #photooftheday #instabird #spreadwings #flywithwings

[speakingofnature]

Emerald Spreadwing Damselfly

With such brilliant colors to show off it is a shame that these tiny damselflies aren't a bit bigger.

#Emerald Spreadwing #nature

[celestialmacros]

Slender Spreadwing (Lestes rectangularis)

July 4, 2022

Southeastern Pennsylvania

#bug #bugs #photographers on tumblr #Slender Spreadwing #odonata #damselflies #Lestes rectangularis #bugblr #insects #nature #animals #entomology #insect

[bugsoupforthesoul]

A female Spotted Spreadwing (Lestes congener)

#Lestes congener #spotted spreadwing #lestidae #damselfly #odonata #insects #nature #entomology #north american species #my photos

[mihaelalimberea]

A western willow spreadwing resting on a pine twig. These damselflies fly pretty late, from August to October, and can be found in still or slow-flowing water with overhanging trees such as willows, alders, or birches. Unlike other damselflies, they would lay their eggs in the bark of these trees, not in submerged vegetation. (på/i Lidingö) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ciwk8QVDXqE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#canon #r5 #wildlife #insects #damselfly #western willow spreadwing #sweden #stockholm #Lidingö #Sticklinge

[crevicedwelling]

I’ve got tons of photos of dragonflies! Texas gets a lot of them, and my area luckily isn’t super developed or urbanized. This is Miniscule Mustard Michael, they were very small. I found them a couple nights ago confounded by our porch light(as they were actually small enough to fly up into it), but safely relocated them to our much less lit backyard and got them to perch on a stick. But they stuck around on me for a few minutes, which was neat.

Then there’s these more average sized lads. This one was on my college campus and let me gently move it away from a construction site before flying away, ironically only like 15 minutes after my economic entomology professor explained how hard it is to catch dragonflies for the collection project we had to do, and how silly folks look trying to chase them with nets. Maybe they should just try being slow and calm and they’ll have more luck, though admittedly I think it’s preferable that fewer dragonflies end up caught and pinned for displays that will end up neglected and ultimately provide little useful information about the specimens in question given the class being more horticulture based than bug research based. I ended up being given permission to do mine with pictures I took, thankfully.

This one was another individual confused by our porch that kept flying into the light and window until I intervened. It let me get some nice pictures before flying off into the night, though this one’s the only one that shows the whole fella. If I recall correctly it’s a black saddlebags— not a species I see up close very often!

This one was certified rude and interrupted my attempt to get pictures of a tiny moth that looked like a tiny dead leaf. Though, I couldn’t be too mad at it, since it did provide cool pictures itself, and looked to be near the end of its life anyways given the wing damage. Free meal for the elderly I guess.

These two polite lads let me get very close for these pictures and for that I am grateful. Even the “plain” brown dragonflies can be beautiful and have blobs of color, it’s just hard to see most of the time.

And lastly, here’s the time I found two at once(on our back porch this time, being harassed by a ceiling fan) and managed to get this neat shot before getting them out from under the roof. It’s nice to have mosquito guards near the house but it’s better for them to not have structures above them when possible I imagine. I know it wasn’t necessary and in hindsight I should have just moved them out into the yard without taking advantage of their tendency to perch on fingers, but neither was harmed or forcefully coerced into doing so at least…

And here’s a bonus large damselfly (great spreadwing I think?) that looks like it thought it was supposed to be a dragonfly. We get plenty but other than one that landed on my shirt carrying a tiny pink flower bud, most fly off when I get close. This one was trapped in the house but let me take it out after a dramatic bathroom chase and my dad getting fed up with my insect relocating antics. Chances are it only perched on me because it was tired, poor thing. I wish there was a way to tell bugs you’re trying to help.

Obligatory “don’t pick up bugs when you don’t need to do so for their benefit, it causes them unnecessary stress and exposes them to all kinds of human skin gunk, let them do things on their terms and sometimes you’ll get lucky and they’ll deem you Inanimate Object Safe For Hold On To” PSA.

an impressive collection of winged beasts

[pwlanier]

A MONUMENTAL CARVED AND GILT SPREADWING EAGLE

AMERICAN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Christie’s

[grubloved]

pretty sure this is a spotted spreadwing, Lestes congener. I'll say Lestes sp. to be safe! shes the biggest damselfly ive EVER SEEN :o

#gorgeous!!!!!!!! beautiful aminal!!!!!! #birdes bugs #birdenest

[squire-jaybird]

slender spreadwing (Lestes rectangularis)

#damselfly #lestidae #nature photography #nature #insects #bugs

[pogomcl]

Willow Emerald, Chalcolestes viridis Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/5.6 1/40 iso: 100 Prague, Czech Republic 9/8/2008

#Damselflies #Spreadwings #Emeralds #Odonata #Insects #invertebrates #macro #Wetlands #ponds #insectphotography #macrophotography #insect #canon

[brianconnollyandsweet]

Cover and article from Popswop magazine No. 77, published 23 March 1974.

FASHION RAMPAGE We had a sneak preview of Sweet's latest outfits and they're as super and dazzling as ever. Brian's is bright royal blue lurex with silver chains just about everywhere! Steve's is pretty blues and mauves metallic lurex. Mick's is silver metallic with the Greek sign of peace on the back (this is the emblem that Hitler took and embellished to make a swastika, and Mick points out that they don't mean the same thing), with a spreadwing eagle across his chest. While Andy has perhaps the most incredible of all. From the front, it just looks like a black metallic suit, but from the back it looks like a stripper complete with flesh colour legs, fishnet tights, navel, with tassles hanging from the supposed bosoms! That one is really clever!

#articles #images #Brian Connolly #Steve Priest #Sweet #The Sweet #1974

[speakingofnature]

Emerald Spreadwing Damselfly

The Emerald Spreadwing (Lestes dryas) is one of the most colorful damselflies found in Iowa. This female is one of several that were sighted in a protected sand prairie which contains a wooded wet area. Although not rare this spreadwing has been sighted in only 30 of the 99 Iowa counties.

#Emerald Spreadwing #nature

[day-poems]

8/1

Here we are the first of August

and still not as many dragonflies

and damselflies as I expect to see.

The species are pretty much all

present and accounted for (minus

the spreadwings) but the numbers

are way down. Hard to say if it

is something in this summer itself

or if something happened back

a season or two in the long and

complicated life cycle of the

odonata of southern Maine in the

deep waters and bottom mud of

our ponds and creeks that is just

now manifesting as the current

crop takes flight to be counted.

Whatever happened or is happening

there are only a very few of any

particular kind of dragon or damsel,

and that is odd, to say the least.

Perhaps even alarming. Alarming

for any number of reasons. It is

too soon to panic. It may just be

a random seasonal variation, but

I, for one, can not imagine a summer

without dragonflies and damsels.

Silent summer indeed. Indeed.

[jewellerycompare]

Graff unveils Butterfly and Wildflower motif designs

Graff has unveiled new Butterfly and Wildflower motif designs, featuring designs in yellow and rose gold. For the Butterfly motif, the collection traces the butterfly’s angled spreadwing shape in 18 carat yellow and rose gold. Upon the largest of the two gold pendants, the wings are outlined in pavé diamonds. For the Wildflower motif, each … http://dlvr.it/Sc3Y0F

#Designers

[eengwall]

Geat Spreadwing (Archilestes grandis) #damselfly #backyardnature #insectsoftexas (at Dallas, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfy8VIZurMi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#damselfly #backyardnature #insectsoftexas