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spottedon shore of lake in city park
I've gotten confused by all the choices of similarly colored dragonflies.
Spotted on Dec 13, 2011
Submitted on Dec 14, 2011
6 Comments
Krystel, I'm going to take that to mean you're not an 'insect kind of girl'.
I'm with the guys on this one though.
Thanks for the lead, Gordon, but I'm still unsure. Hope to find it soon.
Its blazing beauty at work!
Ugly Beauty!
Ugly eww nasty
Red mission??
Really petty.
This appears to be one of the meadowhawks (). Meadowhawks are really tough to ID. You might want to try bugguide.net at http://bugguide.net/node/view/522/bgimag... and paging through that section of the their website. One distinguishing characteristic of your sighting is that the face is entirely red. Many meadowhawks have white faces. There is, for instance, the cherry-faced meadowhawk which resembles your spotting, but I don't know if this is your subject.