Favourite Odonates

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Hi guys!!! I am here with a new topic for the first time on forum! Hope you all enjoy it. Anyways this is to talk about all your favourite odonates( actually all of them are my favourite :wink:). You can put in your favourite odes and also why you like them. Enjoy!!

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Petalura ingentissima because just look at it!! :grinning:

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Woah that is quite big… very big I must say

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Trithemis annulata Of all the ones I have seen it is the most exotic, I love it

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Welcome to iNaturalist Foum @noeliria, Hope you enjoy staying here!

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And by the way T.annulata is really beautiful.

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Never met them, but all Chlorocyphidae and Euphaeidae are best-looking ones!

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I don’t have a favorite species, and I always find them magical. However, I became quite fond of this individual, who spent a lot of time around my small patio pond. I have many photos, but I only turned one into an observation.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51382153

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Too many to pick a favorite, but I am fond of the elusive Brimstone Clubtail (Stylurus intricatus) which occurs in my area of the SW U.S. The name Brimstone refers to its sulfur-yellow color and the hot environments it tends to frequent. This dragonfly allowed me to meet the late @greglasley who traveled to NM just to photo this species when a thriving population was discovered just outside of Albuquerque. Greg dubbed the species the “blue-eyed blond.”

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For me definitly G. lynnae
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/520976-Gomphurus-lynnae

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We actually have a single isolated record of this species in NM which is hard to explain based on its range in the pacific NW.

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I have not seen this one yet, but I definitely want to take a picture of the Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata)!

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Wow, those are amazing!

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Holy cats. And it tried to eat you!

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Very beautiful

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This one https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41418269 landed on me when I was sitting still, I made a photo by luck as it flew away after first big move of mine.

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My personal favorite has always been the Sedge Sprite (Nehalennia irene). These damselflies are tiny (about 2-3 cm) and a brilliant greenish-copper color with sky-blue eyes. They are very difficult to photograph well…they are so small and elusive my (not-so-young-anymore) eyes can just barely follow them. My best photo is probably this one:

https://inaturalist.ca/observations/1715876

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Wow! Thats bizarre… very hard to explain! They seem uncommon in their home range as well, so finding a vagrant would seem even more unlikely.

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I recommend the Cleveland, Ohio outlying area. I saw a lot of them there, for instance around Holden Arboretum.

For my favorite, I nominate the Wandering Glider (Pantala flavescens), also known as Global Skimmer. The link takes you to the observations map so that you can see the reason for the latter name – it is truly global. It is also such a strong distance flier that it is the only dragonfly found on many remote oceanic islands.

Plus, I have had such wanderlust myself, I am naturally drawn to any taxon that inspires someone to call it the “wandering” this or that. I see on Wikipedia that another of its common names is Globe Wanderer, which has got to be one of the best taxon common names ever.

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TodayILearned: All Odonata have aquatic larvae called ‘nymphs’, and all of them, larvae and adults, are carnivorous. The adults can land, but rarely walk. Their legs are specialised for catching prey. They are almost entirely insectivorous.