A Common Baskettail dragonfly (Epitheca cynosura) was spotted near Painted Turtle Pond during a photowalk at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Prince William County, Virginia USA.
26 APR 2018 | Occoquan Bay NWR | Common Baskettail (teneral female)
This individual is a teneral female, as indicated by her tenuous wings and relatively short, straight terminal appendages.
26 APR 2018 | Occoquan Bay NWR | Common Baskettail (teneral female)
Spring 2018 has been slow to spring in the mid-Atlantic USA, as evidenced by the fact that the first Common Baskettails were spotted at Painted Turtle Pond beginning in mid-April 2017.
26 APR 2018 | Occoquan Bay NWR | Common Baskettail (teneral female)
Related Resources
- Late-stage emergent baskettail dragonfly, 13 April 2017 at OBNWR.
- Common Baskettail dragonfly (male), 13 April 2017 at OBNWR.
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Tags: Common Baskettail dragonfly, Epitheca cynosura, Family Corduliidae (Emeralds), female, Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Painted Turtle Pond, teneral, terminal appendages
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