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Dorsal view
I like to get both dorsal and ventral views if I can. I posted both views of this one.
Wagner Natural Area. Parkland County, Alberta.
A White Squirrel decides to take his dinner (walnut) up to the safety of a tree. This one has a dirty nose from rooting around on the ground to find this walnut.
Dragonflies are, like most things, predator and prey. They are predators in their nymph stage, eating what they can capture in the water, and primarily insects as adults. Most of their life is spent in various nymph stages, lasting from months to years depending on the species. As the dragonflies that we see flying around, their life is short, up to five weeks for most species although I read that some species may live as adults for a few months and others for only a few days. I found this interesting from Wikipedia: 'There is also conflict between the males and females. Females may sometimes be harassed by males to the extent that it affects their normal activities including foraging and in some dimorphic species females have evolved multiple forms with some forms appearing deceptively like males. In some species females have evolved behavioral responses such as feigning death to escape the attention of males.' Males, can't live with them, can't live without them....
This one I believe is a Blue Dasher. (Pachydiplax longipennis)
I'm behind - it's been a busy week! A bear, 2 storms, landscaping & yard clean-up. I'll be checking by ... hope everyone is good!
btw this female Blue dasher was a tiny thing - maybe an inch long
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is common and widely distributed in the United States.
Mature males develop a bluish-white pruinescence on the back of the abdomen and, in western individuals, on the thorax. They display this pruinescence to other males as a threat while defending territories at the edge of the water.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", the wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison.
Los Angeles. California.
Just back from "the Swamp." Nothing, nada, nil, zero, zip. Soooo. one of my last Blue Dashers in 2019. I thought I might need it for a lull, but didn't figure the lull would be as early as the last two weeks in August in northern California. I must say he was a beauty, as fresh as if he had emerged in May or June, this species prime time in this part of the state.
The blue dasher is an insect of the skimmer family. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.These dragonflies, like others of their infraorder, are carnivorous, and are capable of eating hundreds of insects every day, including mosquito and mayfly larvae. The adult dragonfly will eat nearly any flying insect.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia: Brachydiplax chalybea is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is known by the common names yellow-patched lieutenant, rufous-backed marsh hawk, and blue dasher. It is native to much of eastern Asia, from India to Japan to Indonesia.
Conservation status: Least Concern
Almost the exact opposite color of how it will look as an adult. My dragonfly ID book says blue dashers emerge right at the beginning of June in the Upper Midwest so maybe this was this beauty's very first morning. Photographed in the La Crosse River Marsh.
If I ever wrote a book on photographing dragonflies, I would give each species a rating as to how cooperative they are in terms of photographing them. The blue dasher would receive one of the highest ratings. They like to sit on the same perch totally still and then "dash" out to catch their prey before returning to the same perch. Photographed along the pond in Chad Erickson Park, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
#CN106 passes through Brockville with another Dash 8 cowl leader sporting its classic zebra stripes. Trailing is IC Blue Devil 2462. Together, they’re working to bring their train to Montreal without any delays.
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas
Don´t you like that great green color? It is like the renaissance of life, always struggling against time and weather...
Another look at a Blue Dasher from Mill Pond. She was quite cooperative and seemed as interested in me as I was in her.
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Caught this female blue dasher eating a meal, a fly or small bee possibly. Taken at Saul Lake Bog Nature Preserve near Rockford, MI
A De Havilland Canada DHC-8 Q400 "Dash 8" at New Chitose Airport, Hokkaido, Japan. It is operated by the regional airline ANA Wings, which uses this aircraft for routes within Hokkaido and other Japanese regional destinations.
Device: Samsung Galaxy A21 Simple SCV49.
Edited with GIMP (some grain added).
Blue Dasher on buttonbush seed head at Reeds Lake - East Grand Rapids
Thanks for views, comments and favs :)
I am still trying to get the many small and orangish and brown Skippers straight. The diagonal mark evident on the right wing of this specimen gives it the name "Long Dash".
Thanks again to John Acorn from the University of Alberta.
Fort Saskatchewan Prairie, Alberta.
Moments after Class J 611 passed this train nice bonus showed up. NS train P88 is on Main 1 of Norfolk Southern's Danville District, the former Southern Railway mainline. They are crossing the Yadkin River from Rowan County into Davidson County at about MP 327.9 and will head into Linwood yard just ahead after their quick run up from Charlotte. A pair of nice standard cab GE C40-9s lead the train, 8786 and 8833 blt. Jan. and Feb. 1995 respectively. Now this model has been wiped from the roster and now standard cab GEs remain. Both of these have since been rebuilt at into AC44C6Ms, the former at Roanoke Shops in Jan. 2018 and the latter by GE at Erie in Aug. 2016 and they are now numbers 4124 and 4008 respectively.
Linwood, North Carolina
Saturday May 30, 2015