Eleven minutes of dragonfly drama hotter than your last situationship.
For its reproduction, the megaloprepus dragonfly specifically relies on periodic puddles in tree holes and bromeliacea in tropical rain forests. Territorial males tenaciously defend these resources. Females lay their eggs in the water holes of the territorial males and are guarded by them. Any satellite male - i. e., one without a territory - who tries to grab a female is driven away by the territorial male.
Cinematography
1988 macro photography that still slaps.
Direction
Rüppell makes insect combat feel Shakespearean.
Director
Georg Rüppell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Georg Rüppell was a pioneer of high-speed insect cinematography, developing techniques still referenced in modern nature docs.
This short exemplifies 1980s German nature filmmaking's obsession with dramatizing animal behavior through human social lenses—essentially proto-reality TV for bugs.
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