Title: Simmons Sunset
Digital Art
NWJ
Art
Art by Norman Johnson
Explore St. Augustine, Florida
Fine Art for Home and Office
Dragonflies
To make it easier to picture the various types of dragonflies in the wild, browse the images below.
The eastern pondhawk (erythemis simplicicollis) is a dragonfly that can be found throughout the United States and Canada east of the Rockies. Look for them around ponds, lakes, ditches, and slow moving streams and rivers.
The slaty skimmer (libellula incesta) is a dragonfly that can be found throughout eastern North America. Look for them around ponds or slow moving streams or rivers with muddy bottoms, often near wooded areas.
The gray-green clubtail dragonfly (arigomphus pallidus) is a dragonfly that can be found throughout the southeastern United States. Look for them around streams, ponds and lakes with sandy bottoms.
Brachymesia Gravida BW
This female four-spotted pennant dragonfly (brachymesia gravida) was perched on a barbed wire fence beside a dirt road in western Polk County, Florida in mid August of 2016. It is part of a group of dragonflies referred to as tropical pennants and they can be found around sunny, shallow, sluggish waters, small ponds, marshes and ditches throughout the southern United States, as far west as Arizona and as far north as New Jersey..
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Seaside Dragonlet
This male seaside dragonlet (erythrodiplax berenice) kept landing on this twig in Tampa, Florida's Picnic Island Park which is located in Port Tampa in Hillsboeough County on May 27,2016. This dragonfly can be found from coastal eastern North America south to Venezuela. It can also be found inland in some southwestern United States areas where there are saline lakes. It is also found in parts of the West Indies and the west coast of Mexico. Look for them in salt marshes, mangrove swamps and saline lakes.
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