[Odonata-l] oviposition photos

[Hal White]

Dennis, Attached is a shot of a pair of L. congener ovipositing in a 
live stem in Delaware. It is scanned from a slide. Hal

Dennis Paulson wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> Last year I sent a note that I was amazed at how few photos there were 
> on the internet of endophytic Odonata in the act of oviposition, and 
> that is still true. I just performed a Google Image Search on several 
> species of Lestes and found surprisingly few photos of them ovipositing, 
> not even a single one in some species. I was trying to test the 
> hypothesis that Lestes congener usually oviposits in dead stems, most 
> other North American species in live stems, and the internet was 
> inadequate for such a purpose.
> 
> It must not be easy to get these photos, as I note I have rather few 
> myself, but I hope all of you who photograph Odonata will think of this, 
> as you get a lot of information from a photo of an ovipositing pair, and 
> photos of 25 ovipositing pairs from all over the range of a species 
> would probably give a good summary at least of the substrates that it uses.
> 
> Several people sent me photos of ovipositing odonates last time I 
> mentioned this, which were much appreciated. I'm not asking for more 
> photos, just trying to generate an interest in taking them and, for 
> those of you with internet photo sites, posting them.
> 
> Dennis
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