| The Desert Firetail (Telebasis salva) is a tiny damselfly of the southwest. The first photos here, of a male, were digital captures in Austin, Travis Co., Texas in Ma,y 2003, and were shot with a Canon EOS 10D and EF 300 mm F4 L IS lens with a 1.4X extender and 550 EX flash. Some water mites are visible under the abdomen on the 2nd shot at right. For a page with images of a Desert Firetail emerging from its exuviae, go here. |
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| This shot was taken in May, 2005, in Medina Co., Texas, along Seco Creek near D'Hanis. |
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| The male Desert Firetail here was photographed in southern Tamaulipas, Mexico, in May, 2007. This image was taken with a Canon EOS 1D Mark II and EF 300mm F/4 L IS lens and 2X extender. |
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| The pair of Desert Firetails in copula on the right was photographed in Burnet Co., Texas, in June, 2003. |
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| The male Desert Firetail on the right was in Lampasas, Lampasas Co., Texas, in September, 2011. This shot was taken with a Canon EOS 1D Mark IV and a Sigma 50-500mm lens and Canon 580 flash. |
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