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Black Saddlebags

Tramea lacerata

Description:

It's a species of skimmer dragonfly found throughout North America. It has distinctive black blotches on the base of the wing-making the dragonfly look as though it is wearing "saddlebags". The Black Saddlebags is a relatively large dragonfly at about 5 centimeters in length. The body is thin and black, and the female may have lighter spotting or mottling dorsally. The head is much wider than the rest of the body and is dark brown in color. Cool! :P

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al_ee_oop
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al_ee_oop

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Spotted on Jun 1, 2010
Submitted on Jul 31, 2012

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