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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.

Halloween Dragonfly

This halloween pennant dragonfly, Celithemis eponina, was found beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in central Florida. They can be found resting on tall grasses and reeds near ponds, creeks, marshes and streams throughout the eastern United States and Canada down to Texas and Mexico.

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Early Halloween

This halloween pennant dragonfly, Celithemis eponina, was found beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in central Florida. They can be found resting on tall grasses and reeds near ponds, creeks, marshes and streams throughout the eastern United States and Canada down to Texas and Mexico.

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Pennant Dragonfly

This female four-spotted pennant dragonfly was found beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in Central Florida. 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..

The males are blue and the females are orange and they get darker with age.They each have a total of four spots, one on each wing about two thirds of the way to the end. On some the spots are very distinctive while on others they only seem like smudges.

Their favored perches are the ends of stems or branches.

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Celithemis Eponina

This halloween pennant dragonfly, Celithemis eponina, was found beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in central Florida. They can be found resting on tall grasses and reeds near ponds, creeks, marshes and streams throughout the eastern United States and Canada down to Texas and Mexico.

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Halloween Pennant Dragonfly

This halloween pennant dragonfly, Celithemis eponina, was found beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in central Florida. They can be found resting on tall grasses and reeds near ponds, creeks, marshes and streams throughout the eastern United States and Canada down to Texas and Mexico.

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Four Spotted Dragonfly

This female four-spotted pennant dragonfly was found beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in Central Florida. 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..

The males are blue and the females are orange and they get darker with age.They each have a total of four spots, one on each wing about two thirds of the way to the end. On some the spots are very distinctive while on others they only seem like smudges.

Their favored perches are the ends of stems or branches.

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Halloween Pennant

This halloween pennant dragonfly, Celithemis eponina, was found beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in central Florida. They can be found resting on tall grasses and reeds near ponds, creeks, marshes and streams throughout the eastern United States and Canada down to Texas and Mexico.

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Gravida Pennant

This female four-spotted pennant dragonfly was found beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in Central Florida. 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..

The males are blue and the females are orange and they get darker with age.They each have a total of four spots, one on each wing about two thirds of the way to the end. On some the spots are very distinctive while on others they only seem like smudges.

Their favored perches are the ends of stems or branches.

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Four-Spotted Pennant Dragonfly

This female four-spotted pennant dragonfly was found beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in Central Florida. 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..

The males are blue and the females are orange and they get darker with age.They each have a total of four spots, one on each wing about two thirds of the way to the end. On some the spots are very distinctive while on others they only seem like smudges.

Their favored perches are the ends of stems or branches.

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Beautiful Female

This beautiful female eastern pondhawk dragonfly was beside the Hillsborough River in Tampa, Florida's Lettuce Lake Park.

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Gray-green Clubtail Dragonfly

This gray-green clubtail dragonfly landed on the edge of the Hillsborough River in Tampa, Florida's Lettuce Lake Park.

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Female Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly

Female eastern pondhawk dragonfly (erythemis simplicicollis) at Lettuce Lake Park in Tampa, Florida.

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