Turquoise Aurora Damselfly - Chromagrion conditum
by Carol Senske
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Turquoise Aurora Damselfly - Chromagrion conditum
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Carol Senske
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These are gorgeous damselflies with bright turquoise blue markings. It looks like this one is a female. Damselflies hold their wings folded at their sides or above their body unlike dragonflies making it easy to tell them apart.
Damselflies look like small dragonflies and are in the same general family. They eat small insects, such as mosquitoes and flies, so they are important factors in keeping populations in check. They lay their eggs in water where the nymphs hatch and begin eating small water creatures. When they are ready to hatch into the adult damselfly, they crawl up onto vegetation, shed one last time, and emerge as lovely insects. They, like butterflies with their wings, must pump fluids through their bodies to fill out – un-wrinkle as it were.
This is the best identification I can find – correction welcomed! There is a similar one called a forktail.
This picture was taken in Montgomery County, PA, on June 28, 2011.
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November 10th, 2011
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Ion vincent DAnu
I am a big fan of your dragonflies, of dragoflies per se and of turquoise too! lots of reasons to love this image! fav, v, FB like
Carol Senske replied:
Oh, goodie - me, too (meaning I love the critters, not myself - LOL). You obviously are a man of excellent taste when it comes to bugs, especially turquoise bugs:>). Thanks a swarm for the fave, vote, comment, AND FB! So kind.
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