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Erythemis simplicicollis
Thank you Livan! Now I can comeback and try to find some more of the dragonflies
I believe this is actually a young male. Males start off green like females and become blue with maturity. The best way to tell the gender in dragonflies is by the shape of the end of the "tail". Yours has the white male claspers. To me it also looks like as if the tail has begun to shift to blue, very similar to this picture:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/186010
Wow I didn't know! Thank you so much! I saw over 12 of them today and all were female then. Is that common?
Spotted on Apr 17, 2013
Submitted on Apr 19, 2013
