A sampling of dragonfly colors (colored bodies and/or colored wings), all photographed by me in Indiana. Many IDs determined or confirmed by Dennis Paulson, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East. Collage made through canva.com, not using a pre-selected template but manual selection, resizing, and arranging.
Species. Top: male slaty skimmer, male blue dasher, ovipositing female green darner (rear) with mate-guarding male.
Middle: red unknown species, male eastern amberwing, female eastern pondhawk.
Bottom: female widow skimmer, female calico pennant, male twelve-spotted skimmer.
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female common green darner laying eggs, while her mate guards her and holds onto her
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This was my first dragonfly photo, and I wish I could encounter the same scene again, with the camera I have now and more knowledge of shooting dragonflies. But it's such a pretty species that I'm posting the shot anyway.
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Likely an immature male pondhawk (HT Chris Bradbury); I'm a novice with dragonflies. Southern Indiana (Muscatuck, Restle Unit), late morning.
See other shots in my "monochrome" collection (sorted by color, starting with blue) here: www.flickr.com/photos/cherylmolin/albums/72157710993266901
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Flickr Lounge two colour: green and brown
I didn't get around to the side early enough to know for sure, but based on earlier photos from a different angle I believe it is eating a damselfly. And without any sense of guilt, too!
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