# Common blue damselflies (Enallagma cyathigerum) mating composite

- By: Charles J. Sharp
- Date: 2015-06-27
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_blue_damselflies_(Enallagma_cyathigerum)_mating_composite.jpg)
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Common blue damselflies (Enallagma cyathigerum) mating, Whitecross Green Wood, Oxfordshire - composite of 3 photos showing how the female swings her abdomen to initiate pairing.