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Rhionaeschna multicolor
This unfortunate fellow hit my windshield this morning while I was driving to work.
Eric, I still have this dragonfly. He unfortunately died shortly after these photos were taken. Would pictures of the dried remains help with ID at all?
Hard to be absolutely positive without a close-up of the male's claspers (tail-like appendages at tip of abdomen), but this is by far the most common "darner" dragonfly along the Front Range.
Christy! I meant to show you this spotting last week. I agree, it looks like the same specie of dragon fly! ceejayalyssa suggestion above is very close!
That looks exactly like the one I saw hovering at Belmar park!! It's beautiful...Bummer! ;-(
It looks like it might be a species of Mosaic Darner. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeshna
Spotted on Jul 2, 2013
Submitted on Jul 2, 2013
