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Male common whitetail (Plathemis lydia) on rock. A North American dragonfly.

Bavaria, Germanay. Close-up of a beautiful opend Blue-winged Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo Dragonfly with green Background.

Close-up of a blue demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) perched on a green leaf. The sun shines through the grass in the background

$Beautiful red dragonfly on a stem.\nClose-up of a red colored male ruddy darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) hanging on vegetation. Resting in sunlight in a meadow.$

The Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx Splendens) Colours

Beautiful coloful dragonfly sitting on a flower

A Large metallic damselfly with fluttering, butterfly-like wings resting in foliage

Dragonfly hunting for mosquito and eating a fly

Calopteryx splendens Banded Demoiselle Damselfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

blue dragonfly is sitting on grass in a meadow. insect dragonfly close up macro

$Tot 42-45mm, Ab. 25-29mm, Hw 32-38mm.\n\nGeneral: A local species throughout our area that prefers slow-moving waters, bordered with tall emergent vegetation. The appearance of the male changes dramatically with maturation; vivid orange abdomen turn into black and grey-blue territorial males. \nMales frequently perch on waterside plants, making darting flights between perches.\nHabitat: Appears to require a certain combination of water quality and habitat structure (such as Reed borders). Include slow flowing rivers and streams, abandoned canals, reedy lakes and ditches, oxbows and fishponds.\nFlight Season: From April to early August, but activity concentrated in May and June in most of range.\nDistribution: Widespread through M Europe, habitat specific, therefore locally common.\n\nIn the Netherlands the Dragonfly is local common. The Males have a blue Abdomen.$

Early in the morning, Calopteryx splendens on a blade of grass dries its wings from dew under the first rays of the sun before flight

A low angled view of a Mayfly resting in the grass with early morning dewdrops

Close-up of a banded damselfly (Calopteryx splendens) sitting on a blade of grass. The background is blurred and green. The wings are clearly visible.

Male of a small shiny dragonfly Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) on the grass on the river bank

Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) sitting on a blade of grass - a species of damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae.

A closeup on a male of the thick-legged flower beetle, Oedemera Nobilis , on a green leaf

Erythema of ponds is heated in the sun in summer.

A beautiful dragonfly waits for its prey on the wall

$Field characters: Tot 56-64mm, Ab 43-54mm, Hw 37-42mm. Distinctly smaller than most Aeshna species.\n\nThe commonest small hawker. Numerous in much of our area, and although it can be on the wing during most months in the Mediterranean, further north it is especially associated with late summer and autumn, when it may appear in massive migrations. It is usually identified by its size, relative dull colours and the diagnostic yellow \$

Ebony jewelwing - Calopteryx maculata on the grass covered in morning dew drops.

A blue Dragonfly on the tip of a weed in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. This is above a wetland pond. Is not captive. Not moved or touched for the photo.

A Banded Demoiselle poised on dead grass head in sunlight

Close-up of a male Emerald Damselfly (Lestes Sponsa) holding on to a straw

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