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Lately I’ve Been Missing All of Our Colorful Insects

Fall Dasherf The weather is finally starting to warm up (not that we couldn’t end up with more cold before winter’s over) and it has me really missing my spiders and insects. Mosquitos and cockroaches, I could do without, but most of the rest of them I find fascinating. Like most people, I especially miss the colorful ones like dragonflies, butterflies, and many of the beetles. It’s still a bit…

Lately I’ve Been Missing All of Our Colorful Insects

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Here’s Another Beautiful and Perfectly Perched Insect

Balanced Butterflies aren’t the only insects that can balance on an incredibly small, delicate bit of vegetation. Dragonflies are real masters, not only at balancing beautifully, but also at launching themselves from delicate perches in a burst of perfectly directed energy if prey flies by. This gorgeous little female blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) provided a great example of…

Here’s Another Beautiful and Perfectly Perched Insect

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Where There Are Insects, There Are Also Colorful Predators

Prime Perch When I was photographing the chaste trees and the many types of pollinators that were attracted to them, I also found this beautiful male blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) scoping out the area. He had the perfect perch on top of one of the trees, so he could watch all the activity. During the time that I was there, he flew around the area a couple of times, always…

Where There Are Insects, There Are Also Colorful Predators

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Beautiful Female Blue Dashers Look Very Different from Males

A Dash of Gold As I have mentioned before, there seem to be a lot of blue dashers around this year. I’ve been seeing a lot of them on my own property, but also in other places I’ve been going to hike. As with most dragonflies the blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) or blue pirate was given its common name based on the appearance of the male. And like many other types of dragonflies, the…

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Blue Dashers are Incredible Gems of the Dragonfly World

Blue Deluxe Along with numerous flowers, come numerous insects, and along with insects come predators. One type of highly successful insect predators are the dragonflies. With their large eyes, they have very keen vision, and with their streamlined body shape they are extremely fast. Despite that fact that most of them are beautiful to watch, they can also be quite aggressive. One of the…

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The Beautiful Blue Dashers Have Been Plentiful This Year

The Beautiful Blue Dashers Have Been Plentiful This Year shows readers a male and a female blue dasher dragonfly. It then goes on to discuss the author’s experiences with them on her own property.

Male Blue Dasher At the end of last summer, I had a few, relatively small dragonflies hanging around my front gate and mail box. I would see them one afternoon and then not for days. I had a hard time getting any photos of them because they seemed a bit shy and I never seemed to have my camera when I saw them. I was finally able to get some images and identify them as blue dashers (Pachydiplax…

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Blue Dashers roam in twos across Lake Istokpoga’s canals in Highlands County, Fla. on a warm afternoon in March. Their brilliant blue colors are attracting partners in the spring mating season in Florida.