Yesterday, I’d put up a picture of the female Ground Skimmer. Turns out that the male skimmer is of a completely different colour, a vivid blue instead of the mottled yellow.
Male spiders are tiny and usually get their heads eaten off. I guess male dragonflies have a slightly better deal.
Continue reading “Blue is a masculine colour.”
Thought I’d relieve that spider overload with another dragonfly.
This is again on the beachside, adjacent to those Prosopis shrubs that I was talking about in the previous post. The beach was abuzz with dragonflies, and of many different varieties at that.
This is a female Indian Ground Skimmer, or the Diplacodes trivialis. A hat-tip to the Nerdy Birders for ID help, an excellent website on the birds, butterflies and dragonflies of India.
