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This picture reminds me of long summer days playing all day with the neighbor kids. Our only rule was to be home before dark!
Time always flew by and we would do a crazy dash as a sliver of sun was still on the horizon with my 10-year-old dog chasing behind ;p
Seemed urgent at age 9 lol
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)
A bunch of De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 airplanes operated by Air Canada Express, as seen from the smoking spot near the international terminal. Registrations visible in the photo: C-GBJZ, C-GSJZ and C-GGOI.
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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 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
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.
San Juan Reservoir in Natomas, Sacramento. May 2018.
This is the place I saw the rare sinuous snaketail, BTW.
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.
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
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.
C-GUKH, a De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402 Dash 8-400, landing on runway 33 at Downsview Airport in Toronto, Ontario.
Serial number 4633 was arriving as DHC4633 (De Havilland Canada) after performing its first flight. It was four hours and 35 minutes long.
This aircraft is expected to be the last Dash 8 produced at Downsview, where De Havilland has been operating for 92 years. No date has been set for a resumption of the type's production, nor has it been announced where that might take place.
Dash 8 production totaled 1,304 units.
They included 299 -100s, 105 -200s, 267 -300s and 633 -400s.
#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.
Dash 8 - MSN 4435
Status : Active
Registration : C-GGDU
Airline Jazz Aviation
Country : Canada
Date : 2002 -
Codes: QK JZA
Callsign : Jazz
Web site : www.flyjazz.ca
Serial number4435
TypeDHC-8 402
First flight dateUnknown
Test registration
Plane age7.8 years
Seat configurationSeat
Engines 2 x PWC PW150A
C-GGDU15/03/2013Jazz Aviation
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).
Don´t you like that great green color? It is like the renaissance of life, always struggling against time and weather...