Desert Dragonfly Close Up

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Uploaded by on Sep 4, 2009

Gorgeous blue-gray dragonfly (gray sand dragon?) at a secluded oasis in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.

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  • they are beneficial insects, right? they eat mosquitos,right? Thanks

  • @boysselle  Yes very much!

  • This is a female Pachydiplax longipennis (Blue Dasher), not a gray sanddragon. It is in the family Libellulidae. Sanddragons are in the family Gomphidae (this group of dragonflies eyes do not touch on top of the head).

  • Thank you so much! Can you recommend a better guide than I have? (National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects & Spiders, Audubon Field Guide to the Southwestern US).

  • I don't know what kind it is, but this footage is vividly clear ahd the editing is great :D

  • thanks :)

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  • I love Dragonflies.

  • thx!

  • thx!

  • oh man ive seen enought dragon flys this year i went to a familly cottage near timmins ontario and there was hundreds of them they pissed every boday off with all there flying around our faces

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