Dragonfly

Description:

Dragonflies are heavy-bodied and usually larger than damselflies; their huge eyes are very close together and they are strong fliers. At rest, they hold their wings out flat to the sides, or slightly forward and downward. Size: large; length 52-61 mm Male: all red-orange including the inside halves of its wings. The thorax and abdomen are unstriped, the eyes, face, legs, stigma and appendages are all red-orange; the wings are reddish out to slightly beyond nodus (slight bend in wing) with a red streak along the leading edge Female: not as colorful having an orange streak along the leading edge of wings only

Habitat:

ponds, lakes, slow streams, pools of rivers