Dragonfly Bull's-eye
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Dragonfly Bull's-eye
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A female common green darner dragonfly close-up showing the bull's-eye pattern on the face.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
BUGs BUGs and more BUGs,
Go Take a Hike Photography Group (09/13/2023),
Images That Excite You (09/24/2015)
& Wildlife ONE A DAY (09/09/2015)
Common green darners can be found almost anywhere in Florida but are more frequent near ponds, swamps and marshes, both freshwater and slightly brackish. They range throughout the United States north into Canada from Nova Scotia to British Columbia and south into Central America to Costa Rica.
The darners have eyes that touch and often perch hanging vertically. The common green darner can most easily be identified by the green thorax and a target-like pattern on the head (above the face in front of the eyes). Mature males have a blue to purplish abdomen, which are rusty brown to purple in females. The immature dragonflies have red abdomens, and can look similar to a comet darner, except for the bull's-eye mark, which is absent in the comet darners. Anax junius are from 68-80mm long with a wingspan around 10cm.
(Species description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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September 8th, 2015
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