Following the theme established in the previous post, here are female and male Yellow-sided Skimmers. Only the female gives you a clue to their name.
Yellow-sided Skimmer female and male
Common Whitetail female versus juvenile male
So I saw this dragonfly and thought it was a juvenile Common Whitetail but then noted that the wing spots were wrong. Woo hoo! I thought. A little research later, I learned this was a female Common Whitetail and down the field a little ways was a juvenile male to compare her to.
Big Bluet – First State Record in Arkansas
I posted this picture about a week ago under the mistaken identification of Double-striped Bluet. My friend David Arbour recognized it instead as a Big Bluet. What is significant about that is there has never been a reported sighting of a Big Bluet in Arkansas. Thanks to David who sent the picture to several experts and submitted it to OdonataCentral, this picture has been accepted as the first state record for a Big Bluet damselfly in Arkansas.
