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White Tail Dragonfly - Plathemis lydia - male
Copyright © 2004 jim taylor

White Tail Dragonfly - Plathemis lydia - Male
up-state, South Carolina, USA
June 26, 2004
Size: ~2 inches
most of these are friendly enough to approach.
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Contributed by jim taylor on 30 August, 2007 - 9:37pm
Last updated 31 August, 2007 - 5:35pm

Plathemis lydia - Common Whitetail
Check out the guide page here. I love this species. At my (very rural) old place back in Alabama, we had a pond that used to be a fish pond in the front yard that got all overgrown before we moved in. When we got there, we kept it that way, because I preferred the frogs and odes that used it to goldfish/koi. This species was everywhere each year, and was one of the first odes I learned to ID on sight.
… J.R. Jones, 30 August, 2007 - 10:01pm login or register to post comments

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