The male flies in front of the female, beating its wings in a special way, and then leaps strenuously upwards, lifting its abdomen to expose its male sex markers-yellow spots on its belly, in the hope of enticing the female to the egg laying site which it has previously selected.
雄蜻蜓以特有的方式拍動翅膀飛往雌蜻蜓面前，接著努力騰空將腹部往上抬高，暴露牠的雄性特徵﹘﹘肚子上的黃色斑點，處心積慮將雌蟲引誘至早挑好的洞房（產卵點）。