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Plathemis lydia
Medium size skimmer. The males have distinctive white abdomen and the females abdomen is brown and white. Both sexes have distinctively black patterned wings. Females oviposit (lay eggs) by repeatedly dipping their abdomens into the water's edge.
Pond and lake margins
Observed on W corner of Heath Pond, The Holden Arboretum, Lake County, Kirtland, OH
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