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Dragonfly handstand

Photo by bowhunter187
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Field Notes

Description:

I dont know what it is doing but its cute

Habitat:

open field

Species ID Suggestions

Eastern Amberwing

Perithemis tenera

Reference Link
Fyn Kynd
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Comments (3)
bowhunter187
thank you Gordon it was a hot sunny day here in New Hampshire today
Gordon Dietzman
The dragonfly is one of the Pennants. If you want to try and narrow the ID, you might want to start at http://bugguide.net/node/view/523/bgimage?from=0 and work your way through them. Good luck. Nice shot!
Gordon Dietzman
The behavior is called an "obelisking". The tail will usually point in the general direction of the sun in an effort to reduce surface area exposed to the sun, thus reducing heat loading.

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PublishedJuly 12, 2011

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