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Common Whitetail Skimmer

Posted by Andrew Jenkins,
North Country explorer from Colton, New York
July 14, 2013 —

Male dragonfly has distinctive blueish white tail and black wing stripes. Female is mainly brown with similar wing pattern and white spots on the sides of the tail segments.