Monday, June 13, 2011

Black-winged Damselfly

While wandering through the woods, I came to this shallow-stream area in which these damselflies were numerous. I don’t believe I had previously seen this variety, at least not at the lake.
 IMAG0140
 



  The field guide indicates their bodies as being metallic green, but depending on how the light hits them, they can appear to be metallic blue.

I was lucky enough to see a couple females as well. The female Black-winged Damselfly does not have a metallic color body and has a white dot on her wings.
female Black-winged damselfly














No comments:

Post a Comment