[Odonata-l] ovipositing photos

[Richard Orr]

Dennis,

Here are two additional photos of congener ovipositing on dead stems.  These
were taken in Maryland.

It is important to note that these shots were taken late in the season
(October 10, 2004) and live stems were in short supply.  The Delmarva bays
where they were found had dried up along with most of its vegetation.  They
may just have been ovipositing in what was available.

Richard Orr
Mid-Atlantic Invertebrate Field Studies
5215 Durham Rd - East
Columbia, MD 21044
odonata457 at comcast.net
www.marylandinsects.com

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[mailto:odonata-l-bounces at listhost.ups.edu] On Behalf Of Hal White
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:31 AM
To: Dennis Paulson
Cc: odonata-l at listhost.ups.edu
Subject: Re: [Odonata-l] oviposition photos

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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