{"id":192,"date":"2009-03-18T10:23:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2009-03-19T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:28:04","slug":"odes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Odes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first odes of spring showed up after the rain, not surprisingly:\u00a0 the first was a tiny Citrine Forktail male seen flying from one (too brief to grab a shot) perch on dead week stalks sticking out of water,\u00a0 late Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Tuesday evening, behind the #3 gabion, I spotted three pairs of Plateau Spreadwings*, <em>Lestes alacer<\/em>,\u00a0 all trying to oviposit on one tiny clump of Eleocharis&#8230;the only clump that had greened up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_193\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-193\" title=\"spreadwing-lovers-lane089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spreadwing-lovers-lane089.jpg\" alt=\"Spreadwing Damselflies ovipositing\" width=\"283\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spreadwing-lovers-lane089.jpg 283w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spreadwing-lovers-lane089-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spreadwing Damselflies ovipositing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The third female is out of sight behind that blurred leaf at the bottom (you can just see one eye and a few segments of abdomen.)\u00a0\u00a0 The males have bright blue eyes and a pale blue or pale green stripe on the thorax; the females are shades of brown\/tan\/beige.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194\" title=\"spreadwings-ovipositing097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spreadwings-ovipositing097.jpg\" alt=\"spreadwings-ovipositing097\" width=\"268\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spreadwings-ovipositing097.jpg 268w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spreadwings-ovipositing097-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The male holds on while the female makes a slit in the stem of the plant and inserts eggs.\u00a0\u00a0 These stems are so thin it&#8217;s hard to imagine any room for eggs inside, but after the long drought, no water plants with thicker stems had emerged from last week&#8217;s rain.\u00a0 Only this single little clump.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we&#8217;re not expecting any rain, and it&#8217;s already warm&#8211;the little rain pool behind the picture is already drying up\/sinking into the soil.<\/p>\n<p>I spotted a male Common Bluet at another rain pool, but the pictures weren&#8217;t clear enough to post.<\/p>\n<p>*EDITED:\u00a0 The spreadwings were IDed as Plateau Spreadwings by Dennis Paulson, from the TexOdes list, via email.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first odes of spring showed up after the rain, not surprisingly:\u00a0 the first was a tiny Citrine Forktail male seen flying from one (too brief to grab a shot) perch on dead week stalks sticking out of water,\u00a0 late Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Tuesday evening, behind the #3 gabion, I spotted three pairs of Plateau Spreadwings*, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4],"tags":[17,23,35,70],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-wildlife","tag-animal-behavior","tag-observation","tag-odonates","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}