Video clip of Enallagma civile landing at a perch.
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Last Updated 26 December 2001
Filmed at 1000 frames per second, played back at 15 frames per second and recorded on standard vhs, then captured as an mpv file.The file is 1.5MB. Watch the damselfly extend its legs (landing gear) for landing.
© 1998 by Bill Wentz, Roy Beckemeyer, and Velvet Hutson. Camera courtesy of Crash Dynamics Laboratory, National Institute for Aviation Research, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Videography by Velvet Hutson. Project in support of Exploration Place, Wichita, KS.