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mostly brilliant green with black stripes
Male Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly on nettleleaf vervain / porterweed.
The thorax is bright green; abdomen green with black markings.
Taken along the Ivy Creek Greenway in Buford, GA
Thorax and abdomen mostly powdery blue. Wings clear with pale brown stigmas.
Females and young males are green with square blackish spots on the abdomen.
This is a first for me seeing a dragonfly cannibalizing...
Female eastern pondhawk looks curiously at me from a small rock.
Eastern Pondhawk spotted near the Alabama River.