Monday, May 14, 2012

And Still Another!

Meet the Citrine Forktail, identified by the folks who run Bugguide.net as "the lovely little Ischnura hastata."  Lovely, indeed.  And little, indeed.  Giff Beaton tells me the two females I snapped today -- one immature and one mature -- measure about .08-1.1 inch.  No wonder I had so much trouble photographing the little buggers!  Especially the immature damselfly, who was more than a bit nervous about the big thing in red (me) leaning in on her.
I have lost count of the species of damselfly and dragonfly.  Tomorrow, I shall have to take a serious inventory!

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