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Enter the Dragon’s Lair, Part 2
In part 2 of this mini-series, I’m featuring some of the many Eastern Amberwings dragonflies that I found at a local Missouri Conservation Area last week. These are some of my favorite dragonflies. They are such a beautiful color, although sometimes a bit more difficult to find due to the transparent amber coloration of the […]
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Tags: Amarugia CA, behavior, Blog, Cass County, dragonfly, insect, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, spring
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Enter the Dragon’s Lair, Part 1
Last week while photographing wildflowers, I noticed an awful lot of dragonflies now active. So Tuesday morning I decided to exchange my macro lens for my favorite wildlife lens, the Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens and go “dragon hunting”. I was not disappointed … several species were observed and photographed. Today’s post features one of […]
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Tags: Amarugia Highlands CA, behavior, Blog, Cass County, dragonfly, insect, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, spring
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A Lightweight on a Heavyweight
Came upon this image while looking for blog material this morning. While photographing the dragonflies that I featured over the past few posts, I also came upon this Halloween Penant that was resting atop an Ironweed wildflower: I always enjoy finding/photographing dragonflies and butterflies in the meadow, especially when they are on/around colorful wildflowers. Photographic […]
Posted in Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: Amarugia CA, Blog, Cass County, cute, dragonfly, insect, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, summer, wildflower
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Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly Males
While photographing the Halloween Penant dragonflies, I also came upon some male Eastern Pondhawk dragonflies. Interestingly, the Eastern Pondhawks are all green with black markings in the immature stage. As they mature, the males begin turning blue, from the rear to the front, until they are all blue. The females, however, remain green. Here are […]
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Tags: Blog, Cass County, dragonfly, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, summer
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Halloween Penant Dragonflies
Today’s post contains some images I captured in 2012 and never published. Wandering one of the local Missouri Conservation Areas, a lot of Halloween Penant dragonflies were resting on various prairie grasses. The penant dragonflies are in the same family as the skimmer dragonflies. Their name “penant” comes from their typical posture of perching at, […]
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween everyone! Today’s post was posted on Halloween in 2012. Wishing everyone a Boo-tiful weekend! On this Halloween day, I’m featuring some Boo-tiful creatures from a local Missouri prairie that I captured one October morning in the fall of 2010. When fall comes to the prairie, there often are many magnificent spider webs that […]