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Plathemis lydia
Relatively calm dragonfly perching in our lily beds.
I walked outside in the early evening to find this beautiful specimen hanging out in our yard. He wasn't too skittish, so I had the opportunity to take a few different shots.
This individual is in fact an immature male Common Whitetail dragonfly. Here's a good example: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/129...
Do you think this may be an immature male? It doesn't have the wing pattern of a female...
The Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) is a very common dragonfly across the entire U.S. The male has large black patches on clear wings with a white abdomen, but the female is quite different, lacking the white abdomen and showing a different wing pattern.
Spotted on Aug 18, 2012
Submitted on Aug 25, 2012
