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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
An Immature male Blue Dasher posing for me at Mill Pond. They are such interesting creatures to study up close. They seem to be more tolerant of your presence as you become more familiar to them. This young fellow needs a shave.
Blue Dasher dragonfly (Libellula veloce) with its characteristic white face, striped thorax and black tipped abdomen. Photo was taken in Kanata, ON.
From Wikipedia: 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.
Pachydiplax longipennis exhibits aggression while finding mates and foraging, and they are not under any conservation threats.
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
The blue dasher is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.
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Thanks to Flickr I was made aware of this place this year.
Since then I've seen it in books too - so I'm sorry to say it's a bit of an iconic or cliched shot which I always prefer to avoid but they keep calling to me unfortunately :(
Even though I spent many holidays in Plymouth for the first 16 years of my life & most of my summers in Devon for the last 15 years, this week was the first time I'd ever been to this spot - great how Flickr lets us see so many places through everyone else's eyes (& lenses) & inspires us to get out there & explore.
When I first saw pictures of this, the perspective made me think the post was about 18 inches high - the kind of thing you sometimes get in a garden to mark the grave of a small family pet like a hamster, guinea pig or gerbil - but it's actually very big.
Commonly known as the Windy Post this chunk of granite is around 7 feet tall but despite the misleading name the reason it is leaning is not down to the wild Dartmoor winds.
You see, Dartmoor ponies are quite poorly equipped to deal with itchiness.
Unlike human hands and fingers which are extremely sophisticated both in terms of placement and application of pressure - ponies hooves are far too unwieldy & crude for localised scratching - and of course they can't reach all over the pony's body.
The only other major tool in the pony's scratching armoury is a vigorously whipping tail action, but even this together with hooves leaves large areas unscratchable.
For this reason Dartmoor ponies have been known to rub themselves against this post to relieve any urgently itchy areas - being intelligent animals they usually rub downhill allowing gravity to apply pressure and do most of the work as they rub gently backwards and forwards.
Over the last several hundred years this has caused the post to lean downwards :)
I just managed to get here about an hour before sunset and couldn't believe my luck that there were some great clouds & crepuscular Rays appearing to highlight the post!
Shortly after this the rain came down very heavily & the sunset was very poor but was grateful for this light & reflections.
- must dash my wife has just caught me on Flickr again which means another spanking is imminent :(
What's an ode season without Blue Dashers?? Dragonhunters are now out at the wetlands - more soon. N Georgia
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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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.
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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This beautiful dragonfly appears to be an immature Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis). This individual was living in early May at Jones Lake State Park in North Carolina and was a fantastic model for the camera. During the photo session, we witnessed the animal hunting and eating a number of flying insects. This animal seems to prefer to perch on this stick as it waited to identify prey insects passing by.
Here are a few references:
www.migratorydragonflypartnership.org/index/identificatio...
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).
DHC Dash 7 G BRYB in British Airways Express livery at Edinburgh in May 1996, delivered to Brymon in Dec 1981 the first of the type in the UK, this airliner ended its career in Canada as C GGUN with Voyageur Airways but was scrapped at North Bay Ontario in 2009.
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.
I’ll never learn, half way back to my daughters and the light I had been waiting for arrives! The evening brought heavy showers interrupted with bright intervals as it edged onward. The little voice in my head said “off your arse Malcolm you should be out in this”. I had the very composition in my mind a small clump of sycamore trees sat at the far end of a golden wheat field, the right light it could be a keeper. I set off with that in mind on a slow casual walk to arrive at my destination to catch the last sunlight before the it was taken by a bank of heavy clouds. Still I was here so I took my photo and walked around the edge of the field to see if there was any other composition of merit. When I got to the far end of the field I waited hoping the sun would play ball before it was swallowed by the horizon. The longer I waited the more I convinced myself it wasn’t going to happen. A dedicated landscape photographer knows how to wait, but not I. Should I even be a landscape photographer, If I’m not moving I’m not doing. It was getting late so I started back, and of course it happened, so my lazy evening stroll became a mad dash, again. I was lucky, I got the photo I was after and a happier photographer started back to again, although now in desperate need of a shower before I hit the sack that night.
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.