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Eastern Pondhawk

Photo by p.young713
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Habitat:

Flew inside! It bit me when I caught it and let it go back out into the wild!

Species ID Suggestions

Eastern Pondhawk

Erythemis simplicicollis

Comments (4)

I cupped my hands around it. It was late at night and I could not catch it, it was buzzing around a stained glass lamp, and kept knocking into the glass, finally when it fell, I thought it had died, I cupped my hands around it and I was bitten on the hand ,so I opened the door and released her into the back yard.
I know larger ones have been know to bite...none sting. The proper/humane way to handle an Odonate is to grasp it by all for wings...making your fingers into like a scissor shape.
Thank you for the ID! Yes it left a small mark, no bleeding. It felt like a bite not a sting. I was surprised, I have never been bitten by one either.
It bit you? I have handled a lot of these and never been bitten. Did it leave a mark? This a female eastern pondhawk, by the way.

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