Hemicordulia australiae at Gungaderra Grasslands

Australian Emerald at Gungaderra Grasslands

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Identification history

	Hemicordulia australiae	20 Mar 2018	HarveyPerkins
	Hemicordulia tau	20 Mar 2018	DerekC

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Author's notes

When I first saw this Dragonfly it was on the ground in a death fight with a European Wasp but as I bent to photograph this action the wasp left before I could record this behavior. The dragonfly appeared to recover and climbed on my finger before I placed it on the twig.

2 comments

HarveyPerkins wrote:

21 Mar 2018

Lucky dragonfly. Do you know if it lived to fly off?

DerekC wrote:

21 Mar 2018

It was late evening so it may not have wished to fly. I did not stay for longer than possibly 15 minutes and it did not fly by then. I do not know if it had been stung but my observation of these wasps is that they use their mandibles and bite other insects in two. It may have had a lucky outcome and I put it up off the ground to give it a chance.

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