Like I said…
Dragonfly
Turtle
Bayview train
I’m trying to learn the names of things. The dragonfly might be a male widow skimmer, but in the pictures on the internet they have white in their wings, not blue. The black on the inner part of the wings is right. If you know, please tell me.
Updated July 20: Look at this great shot of a male widow skimmer I found on Flickr. (Not my photo.)
I think my dragonfly is the same kind and the blue is a reflection of the sky.
The turtle is a midland painted turtle.
The Bayview train says right on it ;)
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Your dragonfly is stunning. But I don’t know what kind she is…
Maybe it’s a male enallagma cyathigerum…but that’s a guess, since I can’t find any pictures of them with their wings spread like yours.
The Bayview train is mislabelled. It was at Carling station headed south for Greenboro, not north to Bayview. Looks like the driver forgot to change the name. And I forgot to notice.
If you can’t even identify a train with its name written right on it, what chance is there of identifying a mysterious dragonfly? But I don’t think it’s an enallagma cyathigerum, Zoom… they don’t have those translucent bands on their wings.
the dragonfly I believe is a male widow skimmer…or libellula luctuosa…that is a beautiful shot you have…amazing…
Hello Amy, that’s what I thought it was! Thanks for writing in.
Try bugguide.net
You can upload your picture and they will ID it for you. It’s a great site.
the dragon fly above is a Libellula luctosa it is a very beautiful species of dragonfly
I was looking at pictures of dragonflies and came across yours. It occured to me that perhaps a different diet might account for the brighter blue in yours. I did read that the brighter colors fade after death because of lack of metabolism, so maybe your dragonfly was young and had a high metabolism. It’s certainly a beauty and much like some I saw on Lemmon Lake in North Dakota a few years ago.