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Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis | August 19, 2012 |
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I suppose the first important fact about the blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis), a small to medium size dragonfly, is that the female doesn't have a touch of blue on her.
She's a striking yellow and black dragonfly with bright, red eyes. |
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Incidentally, her position is known as a "pyramid," a method by which a dragonfly cools off.
The male blue dasher includes blue among its colors, although it is somewhat faint. (The stripes across its thorax (or chest) is more of an ID mark. |
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| On the next male blue dasher photo, the blue is somewhat clearer (and note the darker tail tip). |
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Last year, I had photographed the female blue dasher (but never remembered to upload the photos), so I was very pleased to encounter both males and females of the dragonfly species this summer.
Photo note: The photos were taken in the Toftrees game land during June and July 2012, and I used the Pentax K20D, with the Voigtlander 125mm macro lens (first photo) and the Sigma 150-500mm lens (second and third photos). |