Posts Tagged ‘damselfly’
Bluet damselfly
A pond bluet (Azure bluet, I think) taken at a pond I’ve visited a lot this summer:
I wish there were more depth of field, but there’s a quality to this image I like. The pond meadow just was mowed, so it’s not going to be an interesting place to visit for a while. All the [...]
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Variable Dancer
A damselfly from a recent trip to Cape Cod:
I stayed in Wellfleet, which has more than a dozen freshwater ponds, great habitat for damselfies like this one.
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Hunting Damselfly
A closeup of a perching Variable Dancer about to pounce on an insect:
This insect gave me lots of interesting poses, all more or less cat-like. This is pretty close, the damselfly is a bit more than an inch long.
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Eastern forktail
I should be outside exploring winter, but instead I’m inside reviewing images from earlier in the year. Here’s a damselfly from a Cape Cod pond this summer:
About a foot of snow on the ground at the moment – a far cry from the warm pond where I took this, knee deep in the water in [...]
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Pond damselfly
I was at Cape Cod last week, the freshwater kettle ponds are a great place for colorful damselflies. Here’s a closeup of a Variable Dancer (Argia fumipennis):
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