Thursday is Butterfly Day and Insect Day Giveaway- Week 19

Hi everyone! Happy Butterfly Day and Insect Day Giveaway- Week 19! Gather around the Insect Pub to see butterflies and other insects, and to make new friends. Post your butterfly and insect photos, or art work for a chance to win Steem Basic Income Shares. A minimum of 2-SBI will be given away; 1-SBI for photos and 1-SBI for art work. If no art work is submitted, 2-SBI will be given away for photos. Depending on how many entries there are, I might be able to give away more. Entries will not be judged and winners will be chosen at random. You have 6 days for entries in this post and then a new one will begin. Thanks to all for your amazing entries. The winners for Week 18 are: @nelinoeva and @omra-sky. Congratulations!

Here are the rules for the Giveaway.

1-One submission per person per week.
2-All photos and art work must be your own work. Photos and art work from the internet will not be accepted.
3-Make your own butterfly or insect post and use one of these tags: #butterflyday or #insectpub.
4-Drop a link to your post in the comments below to be entered in the giveaway.
5-Upvotes to this post are not necessary but would be greatly appreciated, and might allow me to give away more prizes.

I am looking forward to seeing your butterflies and other insects!

Here is mine for today of the Blue Damselfly

Damselflies are flying insects that are in the order Odonata and the sub order Zygoptera. There are over 2,600 species and they like to feed on small insects, flies and mosquitoes. If you see one with bright colors like this one, it is most likely to be a male.

Some people get damselflies confused with dragonflies which are in the Suborder Anisoptera. The differences are as follows:
1-Damselflies have large eyes that are widely separated while dragonflies have eyes that are close together.
2-Damselflies have thinner abdomens and hold their wings vertically together when at rest. Dragonflies have larger abdomens and hold their wings horizontally and spread apart.

This one is a different color so it is probably another species. I found it close to the blue damselfly and thought it might be the female but I read that females of the blue damselflies are brown. This one looks like it is black. I love the way they hold their abdomens out when resting.

The following photos of each damselfly gives you an idea of their size and how far away they were.

The blue damselfly was hard to spot.

Thanks for stopping by!

All photos are my own.

Information Source: britannica.com, insectidentification.org

This pretty butterfly gif is brought to you by @brisby. Thank you!

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