The female Neon Skimmer is a glowing honey-gold in the sunlight; this one is hovering over the water, about to lay eggs. She employs a "dip and scoop" technique, plunging her abdomen in the water, and then "scooping" droplets onto nearby vegetation or the bank (unfortunately, in this pond the "bank" is a stone coping. Later in the season, I watched another female laying eggs in the upper, streamlike part, and her "scoop" landed the eggs in vegetation growing between the stones there.)