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Landed on the concrete in my backyard. Beautiful!!
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First photo, female; second photo, immature male; third photo adult male
Sitting on the wall of a building surrounded by a pine forest.
Common Whitetail, Libellula (Plathemis) ...
Whitetail females can be distinguished by ...
Females have a brown body, closely resembling that of the female twelve-spotted ...
Large dragonfly: Females have a brown body, ...
This individual is a female, as indicated by its brown body and mid-wing ...
One of two teneral female Common Whitetail ...
The male's chunky white body (about 5 cm long), combined with the ...
The male's chunky white body (about 5 cm long), combined with the ...
Dragonfly has brownish-black bands on its ...
A teneral Common Whitetail
Heady shiny brown, thorax gray-brown, striped or spotted with white or yellow. ...
First 2 photos show the adult male, third photo shows the adult female. Common ...
dragonfly is just starting to develop ...
This individual is a male, as indicated by the pattern of its wing spots. The ...
dragonfly hasn't started to develop ...
This "raw" video clip shows a female Common
A six-image time series showing a female Common
A three-image time series, shown in reverse chronological order, showing a ...
Tube video shows a male Common Whitetail ...
- mosquitoes and other small insects.
Medium-sized dragonfly with white abdomen ...
A four-image time series showing a female Common
Mature males have a pruinose (whitish) tail and large black splotches on the ...
Common Whitetails are often seen resting on ...