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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Skimmers (Libellulidae) » Meadowhawks (Sympetrum) » Black Meadowhawk (Sympetrum danae)
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Black Meadowhawk - Sympetrum danae - male
Copyright © 2012 Loren & Babs Padelford

Black Meadowhawk - Sympetrum danae - Male
Fontenelle Forest, Bellevue, Sarpy County, Nebraska, USA
September 21, 2012
Size: approx. 29 mm
First record for Nebraska. Four males were found in vegetation around a small pond.

Loren and Babs Padelford
Bellevue, NE

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Contributed by Loren & Babs Padelford on 23 September, 2012 - 11:08pm

Fond memories
No comment on the critter, but your post brought back extremely fond memories of Fontenelle Forest from when I lived in Omaha 1969-72.
… Jack Owicki, 23 September, 2012 - 11:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Fontenelle Forest
Jack,

Good to hear from you. We were wandering around Fontenelle Forest during those years. We probably met you on the trails. We were reading your bio and noticed you use an Olympus DLSR. We take our photos on an Olympus Sp-570. There is a website for All Living Things in Fontenelle Forest (http://www.fnanaturesearch.org/index.php?option=com_naturesearch&task=viewcat&cid=0) that you might find interesting.

Loren and Babs Padelford
Bellevue, NE
… Loren & Babs Padelford, 23 September, 2012 - 11:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Ships that pass in the night
Wow, what a coincidence. Thanks for the Fontenelle Forest website; it looks very nice. Not often you see pseudoscorpions or slime molds featured.
… Jack Owicki, 24 September, 2012 - 2:50pm login or register to post comments

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