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Celeste · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: Beautiful Dragonfly

This handsome guy/gal has taken up residence in my backyard:

I think (s)he's a "Big Red Skimmer" (Libellula saturata).

-- C

ogershok · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 835 Location: Oceanside, CA

Those are absolutely gorgeous. I wish there was a practical way of raising them. I ran across a website several months ago that had dozens and dozens of high quality pictures of various odonata from the US. A spectacular variety. A person could spend a lifetime looking for them to see just like birders do with birds.
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Habibi18 · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

Those are gorgeous!

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Celeste · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject:

I saw two of them out there a few days ago, so apparently he found a girlfriend...
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Habibi18 · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject:

a1_collection · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 294 Location: Walnut California

I have one of those. I catch them in my backyard too as I have a pool they come all day. I only have managed to catch one because they fly so fast and I have yet to buy a decent net.

Lovely
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Habibi18 · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:28 am Post subject:

There was only one time I caught one of those. And let me tell you it wasn't easy. But in the end it was worth it. And this is with a decent net too. It was a few years ago at camp.

Aaaaaa memories! *Sighs* Also damselflies also have a tendency to land on me alot. Don't know why though. Once I had at least 7 on me!

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Celeste · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:51 am Post subject:

Probably either you tasted like a bug, or they thought you were a tree branch and were trying to lay their eggs in your stems... ;-)
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ogershok · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 835 Location: Oceanside, CA

This is NOT the site that I referred to above but it has a lot of good pics of odonata.
http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/Images/Odonata/Odo_picts.html
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Habibi18 · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: