Below are photos made in our Backyard Wildlife Habitat™ at The Water Garden. The dragonflies were photographed in and around our display ponds and aquatic plant beds.

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Eastern Amberwing - male

Blue Dasher - male

Newly emerged adult dragongly teneral. (species - unidentified)

Widow Skimmer - female

Common Whitetail

A Widow Skimmer perches on a plant stem (above). This Blue Dasher's wings (right) reveals damage that has occurred during its short life.

A Spot-Winged Glider (?) (left). Eastern Pondhawk - female(right).
  

A Slaty Skimmer

A Scarlet Skimmer, in the two photos above, showed up at our
ponds this summer. This is a non-native dragonfly in Tennessee.

A pond damselfly clings to a plant stem,
as a drop of morning dew clings
to a leaf above the insect (above).

A Blue Dasher, the most common dragonfly
seen at our location this summer, perches over a pond (above).

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