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The blue dasher is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.
C-GUJV, a De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402 Dash 8-400, launching off runway 33 at Downsview Airport in Toronto, Ontario. "Dande" was departing as DHC4632 (De Havilland Canada) on a 2.5 hour test flight.
Serial number 4632 was due to become D2-TFF with TAAG - Linhas Aereas de Angola, E.P. at Luanda, Angola. It would become TAAG's sixth Dash 8-400.
This airframe was the second last Dash 8 to be built before production was paused. De Havilland would eventually vacate this site, where it had been operating for 93 years. No date has been set for a resumption of Dash 8 manufacturing.
Just a simple portrait of CSXT / Pan Am train POED (Rigby to East Deerfield manifest) tied down on Main 1 taken looking east from the Farley Road crossing at MP 373.6 on District 3 of the Freight Mainline, the former Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division.
This was my first time seeing for myself the recently repainted CSXT 9280, a GE C40-8 originally blt. Aug. 1990 as CSXT 762. It was sold to Pan Am in 2017 in a GE brokered deal and became MEC 7627 but remained in tattered patched YN2 paint until being reacquired by its former owner. This is the first and only Pan Am unit to be repainted so far, and the only one of the model once purged from the road's roster that wears the current CSXT image.
Wendell, Massachusetts
Thursday October 20, 2022
Many CN Dash-8s have already gone to the scrapper so news that a pair were leading #148 got me on the highway towards Hamilton to intercept them at Hamilton West coming off the hill into Bayview. Bonus for the 15th anniversary leader.
Earlier in the morning I shot westbound counterpart #149 with a pair of CN's newest GEVOs in the lead, this is a bit of a change.
This female Blue dasher didn’t let me get as close to her as others have, but I’m still pleased with this shot from back in August.
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CN C40-8 2025 leads ore loads South through Mountain Iron, MN. The iron range is the last place on any class one railroad where you can catch a trio of standard cab GEs on a train.
Must be a late bloomer. This Blue Dasher dragonfly has no tears in his wings, and his colors are vibrant. With such colors so very late in the season, my only guess is that he didn't emerge until early September.
I'm not familiar with American dragonfly species but from google searches I'm 99% sure this is a blue dasher - the colour of the thorax and abdomen look like a male, but shouldn't a male have green eyes? This one's got eyes which are bluey-grey underneath and red on top which my searches tell me are correct for a female or a juvenile. So young male blue dasher I think but please correct me if I'm wrong. Seen in Magic Kngdom, Orlando in September 2022
An Ichneumon Wasp waking up to face the morning.
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A blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) enjoys a leafy respite.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
14 June 2024.
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CN 8801 and CN 2533 bring the H-GALMEM1-13A through TRRA’s “Hi-Speed Line” while the St. Louis cityscape opposes over the variety of power. For the first half of GALMEMs journey it was the CN duo but later on they picked up the Gevo and CP ACU at Falk on the K-Line
Female Blue Dasher Dragonfly. There are approximately 5,000 different species of dragonflies in the world today, split almost evenly between true dragonflies and damselflies. Most species live in tropical areas, however they can be found in every continent except Antarctica.
The United States hosts approximately 450 different Odonata species.
Amtrak 160 leads the Beech Grove segment of Amtrak’s Cardinal at Lafayette Junction, wearing the heritage “Dash 8 Phase III” scheme in the “Pepsi Can” livery that many Dash 8s on the Amtrak roster wore upon delivery. With a lot of actual Dash 8s being on this train in the area over the last year, this is the closest we will get to getting this scheme back, not on a real dash 8 unfortunately (4/2/25).
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.
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is an insect of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax.
What makes this Blue Dasher unusual is that he has so much color this late in the years. Even the yellow patch stands out. Ten minutes after I took this, I got a shot of a Blue Dasher that looked a little worse for wear and not half as vibrant.
Norfolk Southern train 34A rolls through CP Harris with an old D8-40C leading. The former Conrail Dash 8 is running the edge of Harrisburg's old 8th Ward, a former tightly-packed Harrisburg neighborhood full of the cities' poorest residents. It was leveled in 1917 according to www.old8thward.com. Today it is dominated by parking garages, office buildings and apartment buildings; the only thing that appears to still be in the same place is the railroad.
BNSF received a group of C44-9Ws without thir H2 yellow striping lettering back in the late-90s. Traffic was heavy, motive power was tight and they needed the horsepower in a hurry.
A soon to be yellowed Dash 9 works out of the Westmister tunnel with HPASGAL back on November 1, 1998. Consist on this Pasco to Galesburg was BNSF 4814, 4702, NREX 9323, and BN 8162. Was quite the variety along the Class Is in the late-90s.
Poznan, Poland
Autumn
The swirl and rustle of leaves scattered on pavement brings a smile to my face, knowing that I for once do not have to chase them with a rake.
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Blue dasher dragonfly. Pennsylvania Canal, Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Monday, June 26, 2017 6:28 PM
SleepyEye delivers left over dove at the door step. Xena has two meals a day, another food delivery is in the afternoon.
Oh, help! I posted this two hours ago, and all of a sudden it and all the information about Blue Dashers disappeared! To those who left comments, thank you, but I have no idea how these things happen. Perhaps power was lost somewhere in the system due to the heat wave we're experiencing.
Basically, what I said was that it's a very common dragonfly here, but I hadn't seen one in over a month until this (really small at an inch) Blue Dasher was nice enough to perch on a Horsetail Grass for ten minutes. After he flew off, I was back to damselflies whose population is fluctuating wildly this summer.
Now for the Blue Dasher: "The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", their 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. The blue dasher grows up to 25–43 mm long (1-1.5 in).
The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
Conrail C32-8 6616 had train SPL-201, an export tractor train bound for Europe via the Port of Baltimore, tied down at Cove on a spring afternoon in 1994 in the shadow of the Pennsylvania Railroad-era signal bridge.
Back in the day before paranoia and knee-jerk reactions, it was possible to take a photo that nowadays would be unheard of. The police would have been all over me for being in the gauge taking photos in the post-9/11 world.
Perhaps I should have not been there, but it is what it is. I certainly have no reason to take photos here anymore since Conrail is long gone as is the variety.
The 6616 was a member of a ten-unit test fleet from GE that helped pave the way for GE to dominate the market.