[Odonata-l] Damsel eats dragon!

[June Tveekrem]

It looks like the dragonfly is teneral, which I'm sure helped the 
damselfly enormously. I, too, can probably figure out genus, but I'm not 
going to venture a guess about species.

June

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June Tveekrem
Columbia, Maryland, U.S.
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Joshua Stuart Rose wrote:

Howdy folks,

Dragonflies eat damselflies all the time. There are a number of
relatively famous examples of dragons eating other dragons. Damsels
eating damsels seems less common but far from unheard-of.

But how about a damselfly eating a dragonfly?
<http://www.glennbartley.com/naturephotography/macro/dragonscanibals.htm>

This photo is the first time I can recall seeing such a situation.
How many folks have seen, or heard of, this before?

Also: anyone recognize the species involved? I can tell the two
critters to family, probably genus.

Cheers,

Josh