The past few days, I’ve had a dragonfly at the pond that I haven’t been able to identify. He was spending all his time on the wing and my eyes aren’t up to making an identification under those circumstances. So I did what any red-blooded wanna be entomologist would – I netted him.
He turned out to be a Common Baskettail (Epitheca cynosura,) a species I found at Corkwood Conservation Area a week or so past and here in the yard a few days ago. Since I had him in hand, I figured I might as well take a few detail photos and here they are:
I got a bit careless and managed to get the last few segments of his abdomen in shadow. Those yellow spots continue to the last segment.