This post features photos of one or more Bar-winged Skimmer dragonflies (Libellula axilena) spotted during a photowalk at Huntley Meadows Park on 31 May 2014. These individuals are young males, as indicated by their partial pruinescence and terminal appendages.
The wings are generally clear with a touch of white pruinosity basally in the hindwings … . There is also a black bar between the nodus and pterostigma and the tips of each wing are black. Source Credit: Bar-winged Skimmer, Odonata Central.
The young male dragonfly is flexing its terminal appendages, as shown in the following photo, perhaps in preparation for mating with a female that he saw and I didn’t.
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Tags: Bar-winged Skimmer dragonfly, Huntley Meadows Park, Libellula axilena, pruinescence, wildlife photography, young male
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