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Eastern Forktail

Ischnura verticalis

Photo by J.T.Layne
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Field Notes

Description:

Pictured are a male and an immature female. Males have green shoulder stripes and pale green sides. Immature females have an orange thorax, as opposed to the grayish-blue mature females.

Habitat:

Common at small well-vegetated ponds (Stokes, Beginner's Guide to Dragonflies)

Notes:

Observed both of these individuals near a small pond, was lucky enough to get fairly close to them as they perched

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Hey J.T. - consider editing this cool spotting to be included in the Global Dragonflies & Damselflies mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/6524202
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2012

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