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Dragonfly

Anisozygoptera

Photo by JessiesTrails
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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

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PublishedAugust 14, 2011

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