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Common blue damselfly on marsh grass over water

Orthetrum cancellatum, Black-tailed Skimmer, dragonfly, female

$Identification:\nTot 57-66mm, Ab 39-49mm, Hw 37-42mm.\nIn flight often confused with the related and similar small A. mixta. Ranges less far north, but also migratory and may be invasive in good summers.\nMales are often observed when making low patrols over drying wetlands, showing their noticeable bright colors. The males vivid blue eyes and abdomen and largely green thorax sides are especially distinctive.\nHabitat: Prefers standing waters that dry up over the course of Summer, often overgrown with low rushes, bulrushes or reeds.\nFlight Season: On average, emerges earlier than A. mixta. Seen mainly from May to August, especially in the later months.\nDistribution: Seldom abundant, and only permanently present around the Mediterranean, but scarce in much of Iberia and North Africa. Hot summer weather may lead to influxes further north. Occurs east to Mongolia.\n\nThis Picture is made in a Fen area in Flevoland in half August 2022 by high Summer temperatures.$

A shallow focus shot of a Southern damselfly on a thin leaf

Male Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) sitting on a blade of grass near a river. It is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae.

A flying migrant hawker, Aeshna mixta, with brown background.

$Widow Skimmer - Libellula luctuosa\nDragonflies known as king skimmers.\nThis species can be found commonly across the United States$

Daytime macro side-view close-up of a single male banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) damselfy perched on a nettle leafat the waterfront of a brook

Close-up of blue-tailed damselfly sitting on water lily at natural swimming pool, sunny day

$Tot 42-45mm, Ab. 25-29mm, Hw 32-38mm.\n\nGeneral: A local species throughout our area that prefers slow-moving waters, bordered with tall emergent vegetation. The appearance of the male changes dramatically with maturation; vivid orange abdomen turn into black and grey-blue territorial males. \nMales frequently perch on waterside plants, making darting flights between perches.\nHabitat: Appears to require a certain combination of water quality and habitat structure (such as Reed borders). Include slow flowing rivers and streams, abandoned canals, reedy lakes and ditches, oxbows and fishponds.\nFlight Season: From April to early August, but activity concentrated in May and June in most of range.\nDistribution: Widespread through M Europe, habitat specific, therefore locally common.\n\nIn the Netherlands the Dragonfly is local common. The Males have a blue Abdomen.$

Close-up of a four-spotted chaser Libellula quadrimaculata dragonfly.

A blue dasher (pachydiplax longipennis) perched next to the marsh water along a hiking trail.

A Dragonfly in Flying mid-air. Flying above a wetland pond in early morning. In Willamette Valley of Oregon.

Wild plants against a green background and a male common blue damsel fly flying around it.

Closeup on the European Red-eyed damselfly ( Erythromma najas )

Small red-eyed damselfly (Erythromma viridulum) - a member of the damselfly family Coenagrionidae.

Male broad-bodied chaser dragonfly (Libellula depressa) with blue abdomen sitting on a stalk of water horsetail in the pond, copy space, selected focus, narrow depth of field

$Tot 33-35mm, ab 23-31mm, Hw 15-24mm\nThis sleek, pale blue damselfly is one of the commonest odonates in large parts of Europe. Males are usually recognized by the black U on S2 and two-spiked markings on the abdomen, but may be confused with the equally widespread but often darker more local C. pulchellum.\nHabitat: A wide variety of waters, especially still but also flowing, although generally scarce on peaty or clay soils. Favors the presence of aquatic vegetation.\nFlight Season: From April to September, but most common from mid-May to the end of July.\nDistribution: Europe to central Asia.\n\nThis is a common Species for the described Habitats in the Netherlands. This Picture is made in my Garden Pond in the Province of Flevoland.$

Close-up of a beautiful dragonfly looking for food, taken in Germany on a sunny day.

A single slender Slaty Skimmer Dragonfly rests on the tip of a palm frond leaf above captured water deep in the marsh

Male banded demoiselle damselfly resting in the reeds along the river Stour near Sudbury in Suffolk.

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