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  • A rare male subarctic bluet rests on the shore of Lake Elizabeth in the Cascades Mountains in Washington's Steven's Pass. Found most often in Alaska, the Yukon, Northwest Territories and most of the rest of Northern Canada, these beautiful members of the damselfly family occasionally are found in the extreme northern contiguous United States.
    Male Subarctic Bluet
  • Another member of the bluet group of damselflies, the river bluet is found infrequently through the western states and provinces of North America as well and the Midwest. The one shown here was photographed in a dry field in the Columbia Gorge, which separates Oregon from Washington.
    River Bluet
  • This intensely blue male damselfly called a vivid dancer rests on a reed in the Coachella Valley Preserve in Southern California near Twentynine Palms in Riverside County. While harmless to humans, this tiny beauty is a voracious feeder on mosquitos and other flying insects.
    Vivid 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.
    Sierra Madre Dancer