Sierra Madre Dancer
This beautifully blue male Sierra Madre dancer (Argia lacrimans) was found and photographed on a rock sticking out of Sonoita Creek in Patagonia, Arizona on a mild spring morning. Like all damselflies in the dancer family (named so because of their jerky, erratic and highly active movements during flight) males tend to be extremely colorful while the females tend to be drab in color. Unlike other damselflies, dancers tend to catch their prey "on the fly" rather than catching prey on the ground, and this probably explains why they fly in such an erratic manner.
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- ©2015
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- 3738x2492 / 5.5MB
- Keywords
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A. lacrimans, Animalia, Argia, Argia lacrimans, Argiinae, Arizona, Arthropoda, Coenagrionidae, Eukaryotes, Hexapoda, Inescta, Insecta, Odonata, Patagonia, Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve, Santa Cruz County, Sonoita Creek, Zygoptera, animal, antennae, arthropod, beautiful, beauty, blue, bug, color, colorful, critter, dancer, dragonfly, fauna, insect, invertebrate, male, native, natural, nature, pond damsel, preserve, skimmer, southwest, spring, wild, wildlife, wing, wings, damselfly
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