View allAll Photos Tagged animals
The Gavarnie (Balkan) Blue
The Blues Pirene
Copyright - All images are copyright © protected. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited
The California Dancer (Argia agrioides) is a damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae, native from Oregon south through California to Arizona, as well as adjacent parts of Mexico.
The male have brilliant sky-blue; thorax shoulder stripe variably forked (lower stripe can be only interrupted); blue and black abdomen with pale spots usually at side of black ring, blue "tail" segments 8-10.
The female have less colorful, thicker bodied than male; usually tan and black, one form male-like.
Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens. San Marino. California.