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Enallagma civile
On males, look for a broad black shoulder stripe, and an abdomen that has more blue than black. The black color is most extensive on abdominal segments six and seven. Segments eight and nine are entirely blue. The lighter color on females may be blue, tan, or greenish. On females, look for an abdomen that is mostly black on top. Eyespots and thoracic markings are the same in females as in the males. The eyespots are most often small and comma-shaped, or roundish, but unfortunately this is not true of every individual.
One flies over while two are laying eggs in the Corinth Community Park city maintained retention pond. Photo 3 has two pairs side by side laying eggs.
Spotted on Oct 12, 2012
Submitted on Oct 12, 2012
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There are many kinds of Bluets. Here are resources for further study if you wish to know more, or need to ID some. Females are the hardest, of course. Odanata Central general information: http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/...
Bugguide Reading list: http://bugguide.net/node/view/596
Very interesting spotting and comments. For what you say the color of the segments repeats over and over in all of these dragonflies....Are there many of them usually spotted together? Here, at times many of them can be seen together and I used to think they were always many around when one was spotted but recently I saw a few that seemed quite alone (althought the others could be camouflaged around, a high posibilty) If one segment color is modified would you say it is a mutation and then a new species ? Greetings
Thanks Agnes, Karen and Cheryl. Could not believe my luck in catching the fly over. :)
Beautiful ~ especially love the last pic in the series.
Nice series!
Great shot!