Dragonflies & damselflies
Insects of still water, patrolling a pond in summer for anything smaller that flies. Dragonflies hold their wings flat when they land; damselflies fold them together over the back, and are altogether thinner and weaker fliers, staying low in the reeds at the edge.
Dragonflies were flying three hundred million years ago, before the dinosaurs, and some of the early ones had wings seventy centimetres across, which the oxygen-rich air of the time allowed. The design has barely changed since, because it did not need to.
- Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis
- Bluet Enallagma sp.
- Common Green Darner Anax junius
- Eastern Amberwing Perithemis tenera
- Eastern Forktail Ischnura verticalis
- Eastern Pondhawk Erythemis simplicicollis
- Halloween Pennant Celithemis eponina
- Meadowhawk Sympetrum sp.
- Pond damselfly Coenagrionidae
- Twelve-spotted Skimmer Libellula pulchella
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