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Banded demoiselle

Calopteryx splendens

Photo by RikMartin
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Field Notes

Description:

Beautiful damselfly - male rich blue with dark band on wings which gives it its name and the female dark green with white spots at the end of her wings

Habitat:

near water

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Banded demoiselle

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