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reninfrance Wild Member Registered: June 2009 Location: small hamlet 30kms south west of Nantes Posts: 354	Meanwhile, on the grass behind the lavender -twins? Happy to demonstrate newly opened wings.
	· Date: Thu 27, May 2010 · Views: 851 · Filesize: 110.7kb, 991.2kb · Dimensions: 1200 x 899 ·
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	Keywords: broad bodied chaser Libellula Depressa
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RoyW
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Registered: April 2009
Location: London, England
Posts: 230

Fri 17, September 2010 2:20pm

This is a good comparison of the differences between the newly emerged male and female.

The one on the left is a male (not quite as 'broad-bodied', and with different shaped appendages at the tip of the abdomen).

Incidentally, dragonflies don't technically have a "pupa", the adult form emerges directly from the last larval stage without an 'inactive' pupal stage in between.

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