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Common Backswimmer lurking for prey at the water surface. Notonecta glauca.

Male common whitetail (Plathemis lydia) on rock. A North American dragonfly.

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A graceful dragonfly near a marsh in the boreal forest.

Ground Skimmer dragonfly eating another dragonfly for breakfast.

Great Blue Skimmer Dragonfly (Female) perched on a branch

$Tot 29-34mm, Ab 18-26mm, Hw 20-30mm\nGeneral: \nThe small, all black males are a familiar sight on bogs and moors in our northern regions.\nYounger males and females are easily distinguished by the black band marked with “golden drops” on the thorax side.\nOccurrence: \nCircumboreal, ranging to Japan and across North America. Generally common, even abundant on many acidic waters.\nHabitat: \nMostly acidic waters such as bogs, moorland and heathy lakes, but also breeds in small tarns, drying ponds and ditches.\nFlight Season: \nRelative late, from mid-June to early November, most abundant in August.\n\nThis is a common Species in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$

Common whitetail dragonfly just doing what a dragonfly does best

Annual swarm of long-tailed mayfly on Tisza river in Serbia.

Close-up of an emperor dragonfly on a yellow background

Many water striders look forward regularly

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

A single Buysson's Paper Wasp (Polistes buyssoni), an invasive species from North America, drinks from a mountain stream during hot mid-summer weather in central Chile, near the capital Santiago.

Twelve-spotted skimmer -- a large, common, fast-flying dragonfly that occurs in all the lower 48 states and southern Canada. The white patches proclaim this a male. Taken in a Connecticut pollinator meadow.

Water strider glides on the water, North China

Palingenia longicauda is an aquatic insect in the order Ephemeroptera. It is known as the Tisa or Tisza mayfly after the European Tisza river in Vojvodina where it is found and also as the long-tailed mayfly and giant mayfly since it is the largest mayfly species in Europe, measuring 12 cm (5 in) from head to tail.

A blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) taking a break on my hydrangea bush.

A widow skimmer dragonfly perched on a branch in a garden.

A Widow Skimmer dragonfly perches gracefully on a twig, surrounded by vibrant pink wildflowers in a lush, green meadow.

Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) eating a clam

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