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  • An immature four-spotted pennant dragonfly perches an a dried reed along the coast in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge on the Florida Panhandle.
    Four-spotted Pennant
  • A very cool find: a western pondhawk dragonfly laying her eggs in a pond in Soos Creek in Kent, Washington! When the eggs hatch, the voracious aquatic nymphs that emerge will active hunt down any kind of aquatic insect it can find, such as mosquito and mayfly larvae, and even small fish and tadpoles until it is time for them to emerge from the water as adults.
    Female Western Pondhawk
  • The western pondhawk is a common dragonfly in the western states and provinces of North America. With its oversized jaws, it can overpower and devour most large flying insects such as butterflies, damselflies and even other dragonflies. It is most often seen perched on vegetation as it scans for a potential meal to fly by. This male was seen lying in wait along Soos Creek, in Kent, Washington.
    Male Western Pondhawk
  • Perhaps the most strikingly beautiful of all of the large dragonflies of Western Canada and the United States, the eight-spotted skimmer contrasts greatly with its environment, whether it is in lowland marshes and ponds or along desert creeks and rivers. This one was seen near the bank of the Tieton river in the sagebrush desert near Naches, Washington on a very hot summer day.
    Eight-spotted Skimmer
  • Perhaps the most strikingly beautiful of all of the large dragonflies of Western Canada and the United States, the eight-spotted skimmer contrasts greatly with its environment, whether it is in lowland marshes and ponds or along desert creeks and rivers. This one was seen perching over a duckweed-covered pond near Soos Creek, part of the Green River watershed system in Kent, Washington on a very hot summer day.
    Eight-spotted Skimmer
  • Common throughout most of North America, the variegated meadowhawk is a small-to medium dragonfly in the skimmer family that can be found near ponds and somewhat stagnant water where it actively hunts and devours large numbers of mosquitos, like this one was doing next to a recently dried-up pond in Pharr, Texas. This brightly-colored red male was easy to identify by the two yellow spots on either side of its body.
    Male Variegated Meadowhawk
  • Common throughout most of North America, the variegated meadowhawk is a small-to medium dragonfly in the skimmer family that can be found near ponds and somewhat stagnant water where it actively hunts and devours large numbers of mosquitos, like this one was doing next to a recently dried-up pond in Pharr, Texas. This female is easy to identify by the two yellow spots at the bottom of the two whitish lines on either side of its body.
    Female Variegated Meadowhawk
  • The western pondhawk is a common dragonfly in the western states and provinces of North America. With its oversized jaws, it can overpower and devour most large flying insects such as butterflies, damselflies and even other dragonflies. It is most often seen perched on vegetation as it scans for a potential meal to fly by. This male was seen lying in wait along Soos Creek, in Kent, Washington.
    Male Western Pondhawk
  • This large dark and beautiful dragonfly flecked in blue with an unusual flattened tail is common in western North America where it hunts for mosquitoes and other flying prey over shady ponds and wetlands. This one was spotted resting on a tree in a forest near Chatcolet Lake in Northern Idaho.
    Paddle-tailed Darner
  • Very similar to the closely-related and common American rubyspot, the canyon rubyspot is a very rare damselfly found only in Arizona. This one was found on a rock sticking out of the water in the Sonoita Creek in Santa Cruz County.
    Canyon Rubyspot
  • Found throughout the Eastern United States and some of the Canadian provinces, this large attractive dragonfly was photographed in the wild and swamp-like Tate's Hell State Forest in Northern Florida on the Gulf Coast.
    Carolina Saddlebags (Tramea carolina)
  • 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
  • A male blue dasher dragonfly perches on an old thistle flower that's gone to seed over a small pond in rural southern Georgia in Hardee County.
    Blue Dasher
  • 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
  • One of the most striking and common of the medium-sized dragonflies of the Florida Everglades, the Halloween pennant gets its name from its banded bright orange and brown wings. Known for a butterfly-like flying pattern, this summertime dragonfly is found in most of Eastern and Central North America.
    Halloween Pennant
  • Roseate skimmer dragonfly resting on a reed in a pond in Sarasota, Florida. Beautiful!
    Roseate Skimmer
  • The brilliant green and blue male common green darner seen here in the CREW Marsh Hiking Trails. These are very common in South Florida wetlands.
    Common Green Darner
  • Female golden-winged skimmer photographed in the Big Cypress National Preserve. The wet prairies here support HUGE populations of dragonflies!
    Golden-Winged Skimmer
  • 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
  • A male blue dasher photographed next to a pond near Thomasville, Georgia.
    Blue Dasher
  • A beautiful male blue dasher posing on a stick in Tallahassee, Florida. Males are bright blue with green eyes, and the females are a drab brown with dull yellow stripes.
    Blue Dasher
  • The beautiful male roseate skimmer photographed in the CREW Marsh Hiking Trails. These are very common in South Florida wetlands.
    Roseate Skimmer