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Libellula luctuosa
A big, showy skimmer with dark wing bases. The female has golden stripes down each side of her abdomen.
Lakes, ponds, and pools in slow streams of all kinds with mud bottoms and usually much vegetation in open and wooded habitats. Common at farm ponds and otehr created habitats.
I spotted this female at the neighbor's pond 1/4 mile down the road, but I have seen them in my own yard also.
Spotted on Jul 30, 2012
Submitted on Dec 19, 2012
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