Ebony Jewelwing
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Ebony Jewelwing
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A female ebony jewelwing damselfly viewed from above with its wings held tightly together.
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One of the more common damselflies of freshwater streams, usually shaded with dense vegetation, in Florida north of a line from DeSoto County on the west coast to Brevard County on the east coast. The range extends throughout most of central and eastern North America.
Ebony jewelwings have a green body and dark wings, which like most damselflies are held together vertically while at rest. Males are a more iridescent green with black wings. Females are bluish-green with smoky bronze wings having a white spot on the leading edge of the wing near the wingtip. This white spot is called a pterostigma. The spined legs help them catch prey such as gnats, mosquitoes and crane flies. Calopteryx maculata have a body length of 2-1/4 - 3 inches and a wingspan of 1-1/2 - 2-1/4 inches.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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May 30th, 2018
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