Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Pretense of Fatality

The moorland hawker dragonfly
Does mate while flying through the air.
When done the male just moves on by,
Leaving the female mated there.
The female needs to rest a bit
Before she flies to find a place
To lay her eggs but knows that it,
Being that males are on the chase,
Is likely that other males will
Show up wanting to mate too.
The female has a special skill
Of acting quite dead through and through.

Once rested up and suitor free,
She then flies on "eggs"cellently.