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Egg deposition rates and duration of oviposition in Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas) (Insects: Odonata)

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Platycnemis pennipes deposits eggs into plant tissue at or just below the water surface. On a number of different plant species egg deposition rate was found to be similar, while oviposition duration varied. Eggs were not always to be found in the substrate after a female had probed the substrate with her ovipositor. Actual oviposition took place only during longer stays.

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Martens, A. Egg deposition rates and duration of oviposition in Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas) (Insects: Odonata). Hydrobiologia 230, 63–70 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00015115

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