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    Any advice on the topic of attracting green darners to our backyard?

    Hello folks! The springtime is soon to be here, and with the arrival of warm weather, the giant green darner (Anax junius) will return with the migratory birds and butterflies. The green darner is possibly my favorite of all dragonflies. It is one of the most famous dragonflies, and to me, a...
    • Avon Avians
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    • aeshnidae anax junius aquatic insects attracting insects attracting wildlife backyard habitat backyard wildlife common green darner dragonflies dragonflies and damselflies green darner odonata ponds
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    • Forum: Insects, Dragonflies, Arachnids, Beetles & More
  2. Common Darter

    Common Darter

    • Andy Hall
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    • darters odonata
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Invertebrates
  3. Resting migrant hawker

    Resting migrant hawker

    This years garden photography. First migrant hawker dragonfly, well i think it's one, can do the photos no issues but naming and sexing them is another mater, easier to get dead sharp shots than naming them. Dragonfly gallery http://www.kateyjanephotography.co.uk/British-Dragonflies-Odonata-/
    • Katey jane photography
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    • dragonfly hawker migrant odonata
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Invertebrates
  4. Needham's Skimmer Dragonfly

    Needham's Skimmer Dragonfly

    Nice Macro face shot of this skimmer.
    • Newton-W
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    • dragonfly neddham\'s odonata skimmers
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
  5. Male Copper Demoiselle

    Male Copper Demoiselle

    It's dragonflies and damselflies' high season and we spent most of the morning watching and photographing them. This one is a male Copper Demoiselle (Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis) in Los Alcornocales, Cadiz, Spain.
    • Yeray
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    • cadiz copper damselflie odonata spain
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
  6. Eastern Amberwing - Perithemis tenera

    Eastern Amberwing - Perithemis tenera

    The Eastern Amberwing - Perithemis tenera is a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae. It is very small, reaching a total length of no more than 25mm. The males have orange or amber wings. Both genders have a red pterostigma. This low-flying skimmer usually flies in sunshine, avoiding...
    • cledry
    • Media item
    • dragonfly mimic odonata
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Invertebrates
  7. Halloween Pennant - Celithemis eponina on Buchnera americana

    Halloween Pennant - Celithemis eponina on Buchnera americana

    One of my favourite dragonflies.
    • cledry
    • Media item
    • dragonfly odonata
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Invertebrates
  8. Blue Dasher - Pachydiplax longipennis (juvenille male)

    Blue Dasher - Pachydiplax longipennis (juvenille male)

    The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is common and widely distributed in the United States. Mature males develop a bluish-white pruinescence on the back of the abdomen and, in western individuals, on the thorax. They display this pruinescence to...
    • cledry
    • Media item
    • dragonfly odonata
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Invertebrates
  9. Bar-winged Skimmer - Libellula axilena (female)

    Bar-winged Skimmer - Libellula axilena (female)

    Bar-winged Skimmer - Libellula axilena is a medium-sized dragonfly. Perches weed tips to tree tops
    • cledry
    • Media item
    • dragonfly odonata
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Invertebrates
  10. Eastern Amberwing - Perithemis tenera

    Eastern Amberwing - Perithemis tenera

    The Eastern Amberwing - Perithemis tenera is a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae. It is very small, reaching a total length of no more than 25mm. The males have orange or amber wings. Both genders have a red pterostigma. This low-flying skimmer usually flies in sunshine, avoiding...
    • cledry
    • Media item
    • dragonfly odonata
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Invertebrates
  11. A Dimunitive Killer

    A Dimunitive Killer

    This Damselfly (Coromandel Marsh Dart), lovely as it looks, is a killer too. Found this feeding on a less fortunate insect.
    • ariban
    • Media item
    • coenagrionidae damselfly odonata
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Invertebrates
  12. 4-spotted Chaser. Female forma praenubila [Libellula quadrimaculata] 27-06-

    4-spotted Chaser. Female forma praenubila [Libellula quadrimaculata] 27-06-

    This beauty posed perfectly on a dyke-side thistle at the RSPB reserve of Lakenheath in Suffolk, UK.
    • steve covey
    • Media item
    • 4-spotted chaser anisoptera dragonfly forma praenubila libellula quadrimaculata odonata
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Invertebrates
  13. Beauty Alights

    Beauty Alights

    When not distracted by birds, I like to photograph insects that I find particularly striking. I was feeding chickadees when this fella flew in and perched on the sumac....I immediately dropped the sunflower seeds to take some photos as the colours of this dragonfly thrilled me. I have never...
    • Gillian_M
    • Media item
    • odonata
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
  14. Common Hawker

    Common Hawker

    • walwyn
    • Media item
    • dragonfly hawker odonata
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Invertebrates
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