Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Odonata Update

Familiar Bluets (probably).
Rambur’s Forktails.
Citrine Forktails.
Late summer mating. Will the resulting larvae emerge this year or overwinter?
Common Whitetail female oviposits as a male Twelve-spotted Skimmer hovers overhead. Twelve-spotted females look quite similar to the Whitetail females, so I wonder if the male was as confused as I was.
More Rambur’s at it.
Young Rambur’s female munching on a fly.

mthew

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