Wildlife Photography: Dragonflies

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(1) Halloween pennant, Celithemis eponina (Raleigh, NC); (2 & 3) Southern hawker, Aeshna cyanea (Attenborough NR, Nottingham).
(1-3) Banded damsels, Calopteryx splendens (Attenborough NR, Nottingham);
(1) Large red damsel, Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Lochwinnoch, Scotland); (2 & 3) Brown hawkers, Aeshna grandis (Attenborough NR).
(1) Azure bluet, Coenagrion puella (London); (2) Migrant hawker, Aeshna mixta (Attenborough NR, Nottingham); (3) Black-tailed skimmer, Orthetrum cancellatum (Attenborough NR).
(1) Chalk-fronted corporal, Libellula julia (Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada); (2 & 3) Emerald spreadwing, Lestes sponsa (Attenborough NR, Nottingham, and Tyresta National Park, Sweden);
(1) 12-spotted skimmer, Libellula pulchella (Killbear Provincial Park, Canada); (2) Blue dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis (Frontenac Provincial Park, Canada); (3) Common darter, Sympetrum striolatum (Attenborough NR, Nottingham).
Common whitetails,Libellula lydia (1) Cap Tourmente, Canada; (2) Voyageur Provincial Park, Canada; (3) Raleigh, NC.
(1) Ruddy darter, Sympetrum sanguineum (Attenborough NR, Nottingham); (2-3) Ebony jewelwings, Calopteryx maculata (Algonquin Provincial Park and Minesing Wetlands, Canada);
(1) Dragonhunter, Hagenius brevistylus (Beausoleil Island, Canada); (2) Eastern pondhawk, Erythemis simplicicollis (North Carolina); (3) Common bluetails, Ischnura elegans (Attenborough NR).
(1 & 2) Common bluets, Enallagma cyathigerum (Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, and Rasunda, Stockholm, Sweden); (3) Red-eyed damselfly, Erythromma najas (Rasunda, Stockholm, Sweden).
(1) Widow skimmer, Libellula luctuosa (Voyageur Provincial Park, Canada).

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