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Beautiful Demoiselle (female)

Calopteryx virgo

Description:

We could see the females going inside the water to deposit their eggs after mating. The ones we saw never came back up for a period of half an hour. Later I read that they can be up to 90 min under water.

Habitat:

Silsombos, Belgium.

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Vlaanderen, Belgium

Spotted on Jun 6, 2015
Submitted on Jul 26, 2015

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