Another New Species Identified on the Domain!

Welcome, Dusky Dancer (Argia translata)!

Photographed at Lake Cheston on July 8, 2015. 

That makes 36 species of dragonfly and 25 of damselfly. 

Addendum:

And Still Another Emergence Tally as of July 8

Common Green Darner

Fragile Forktail

Common Baskettail

Springtime Darner

Blue Corporal

Carolina Saddlebags

Lancet Clubtail

Common Whitetail

Azure Bluet

Southern Spreadwing

Calico Pennant

Comet Darner

Violet Dancer

Painted Skimmer

Black Saddlebags

Spangled Skimmer

Double-striped Bluet

Skimming Bluet

Orange Bluet

Citrine Forktail

Doubled-ringed Pennant

Eastern Pondhawk

Spangled Skimmer

Ebony Jewelwing

Stream Cruiser

Blue Dasher

Swamp Spreadwing

Amber-winged Spreadwing

Lilypad Forktail

Golden-winged Skimmer

Banded Pennant

Stream Bluet

Powdered Bluet

Slaty Skimmer

Prince Baskettail

Gray Petaltail

Southern Sprite

Widow Skimmer

Sweetflag Spreadwing

Unicorn Clubtail

Eastern Amberwing

Great Blue Skimmer

Spotted Spreadwing

Autumn Meadowhawk

Swift Setwing

Halloween Pennant

Dusky Dancer

The Best Root Canal Day Ever

1.
Two Spot-winged Gliders hawked back and forth, back and forth, between the endodontist's office and patio fountain. One even "belly-flopped" several times in the chlorinated water. Every tooth appointment should begin like this.

2.
A trip over the bridge to New Hope in search of river access. Instead, I followed a sign that said "SHRINE," uncertain of what I'd find. Past trailers, homemade houses, McMansions, and a couple of stately old farms I found this: a folk art church created by a Marionite.

And look who awaited me on the altar.

And look who I found in the grass outside.

And look who perches above Mary.

And then, as I reached for the car door, this fellow flew past me, close to the ground: my very first Black-shouldered Spinyleg.

3.
A wander to Nickajack Dam, where a fisherman told me, "No catfish for the last two years, even since that spill in West Virginia. I've fished here for fifteen years and till two years ago, I caught all the catfish I wanted." And where when I asked two workers emptying the garbage cans how I could get down to the water, one answered, "You're a grown lady. You can go down that closed-off sidewalk and then walk down on the rick-rack. It ain't goin' nowhere and ain't no snakes up in here." No snakes, but plenty of Blue-fronted Dancers, Dusky Dancers, a few Common Whitetails, and one (or two) Cyrano Darners.

4.
Teeth.

That's what Odonates and I have in common.

And the outdoors.