«
»

Black Saddlebags dragonfly (male) redux

A Black Saddlebags dragonfly (Tramea lacerata) spotted near the shore of Accotink Bay. Notice the hind wings of Black Saddlebags are broader than its fore wings, a characteristic of many migratory species of dragonflies.

734_lcc-cr2-_ver3_aperture734_lcc-cr2-_ver2_aperture

Habitat: Accotink Bay Wildlife Refuge, a 1,200 acre preserve located at Army Garrison Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia USA.

Copyright © 2012 Walter Sanford. All rights reserved. www.wsanford.com

Tags: , , ,

This entry was posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:00 am and is filed under Aperture, Canon EOS XTi, digital photography, dragonflies, natural science. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Black Saddlebags dragonfly (male) redux”

  1. Honorable Mention Photos of 2012 (Part 2) | walter sanford's photoblog Says:
    February 2, 2015 at 3:02 pm | Reply

    […] Black Saddlebags dragonfly (male), 10 September 2012 […]

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: