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Damselflies
Orange Bluet Damselfly
Note the 3 small eyes on the top of its head called ocelli. The two compound eyes have 5,000+ individual light-sensitive "eyes" called ommatidia and detect movement 2x faster than humans! We have 52 species of Damselflies in MN and the male and female look different, so please excuse me if I get the ID incorrect! (Damselflies of Mn, Wi and MI by Robert DuBois). The below image is a focus stack of 3 separate images.
Eastern Forktail Damselfly
Citrine Forktail 300mm PF 1/640 @ f/8 ISO 500
Marsh Bluet (Male)
Nikon 300 mm PF 1/4000 sec at f/4.5 ISO 500
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