Using damselfly nymphs (Lestes congener) hatched in the lab, researchers put nymphs of various sizes in two different temperature environments, one a balmy 18 ° Celsius and the other a toastier 24 ° Celsius.
Not exact matches
This implies that males, but not females, pay a high cost when they
use color to communicate with other
damselflies, both in terms of predation risk and visibility to prey.
We hypothesize that females
use this to reduce male harassment, which is very intense in
damselflies.
The conspicuous wing coloration is
used in color communication between the sexes and between different species of
damselflies.
They
used an experimental setup in which a
damselfly was floated in a glass vial and exposed visually and chemically to a fish predator.