Editing Damselfly (section)

==In culture==

[[Fishing flies]] that mimic damselfly nymphs are sometimes used in wet-fly fishing, where the hook and line are allowed to sink below the surface.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fishing Tips for the Juicebug Damsel Nymph |author=Wada, Wes |url=http://flyfoundry.com/wes-wadas-signature-flies/featured-fly-juicebug-damsel-nymph/fishing-tips-for-the-juicebug-damsel-nymph/ |publisher=Fly foundry |access-date=13 March 2015 |date=2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119104923/http://flyfoundry.com/wes-wadas-signature-flies/featured-fly-juicebug-damsel-nymph/fishing-tips-for-the-juicebug-damsel-nymph/ |archive-date=19 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Damselflies have formed subjects for personal [[jewellery]] such as brooches since at least 1880.<ref>{{cite web|title=Antique "Damselfly" Brooch in Silver-topped Gold with Ruby Eyes|url=http://www.macklowegallery.com/gallery-display-item.asp/antique/Jewelry/Art+Nouveau/Jewelry/antiques/Brooches/item/BO-12758/Brooches/Antique+%93Damselfly%94+Brooch+in+Silver-topped+Gold+with+Ruby+Eyes|publisher=Macklowe Gallery|access-date=13 March 2015 }}{{dead link|date=August 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

''Damselfly'' is a 2005 short film directed by Ben O'Connor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ben O'Connor|url=http://film.britishcouncil.org/ben-oconnor|publisher=British Council|access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref>

''Damselfly'' is the title of a 2012 novel in the ''Faeble'' series by S. L. Naeole<ref>{{cite book|last1=Naeole|first1=S. L.|title=Damselfly|date=2012|publisher=Crystal Quill}}</ref> and of a 2018 novel by Chandra Prasad.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Damselfly|url=https://rusoffagency.com/fiction/damselfly/|access-date=21 December 2020|website=Marly Rusoff Literary Agency}}</ref>

Modern poems with the damselfly as a subject include a 1994 poem by [[August Kleinzahler]], which contains the lines "And that blue there, cobalt / a moment, then iridescent, / fragile as a lady's pin / hovering above the nasturtium?"<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kleinzahler |first1=August |title=The Damselfly |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/164/5#!/20604095 |publisher=Poetry Magazine |access-date=13 March 2015 |date=August 1994}}</ref> The poet [[John Engels]] published "Damselfly, Trout, Heron" in his 1983 collection ''Weather-Fear: New and Selected Poems''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Engels|first1=John |title=Damselfly, Trout, Heron |publisher=University of Georgia Press |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177648 |access-date=13 March 2015 |date=1983}}</ref>