Update June 07 2005: Today
I found two male Orange-striped Threadtails
Protoneura cara on Winans Creek under the H16
road bridge west of Bandera in Bandera County. - added at bottom
of page.
These Orange-striped Threadtails Protoneura
cara were photographed on Cibilo Creek at the Cibilo
Nature Center in Boerne, Kendall County, Texas on August 12, 2004;
there were more than 30 individuals seen - almost all in tandem
- along a 70-yard stretch of the creek:
During this ovipositing process the males keep their wings going,
and - rather like an airboat - they slowly steer the flotsam into
the center of the gentle eddy.
NOTE in the pic below an unattached female that is ovipositing
(top end of twig); she remained like this for quite a while -
long after the two pairs had departed the twig. Eventually she
flew up and within seconds had been grabbed by a male:
