I saw this thing crawl out of the a lake and onto the shore last week. The lake is at nearly 5000 feet elevation in the I-90 corridor
My first thought was dragonfly.
My first thought was dragonfly.
Nymph ID help
- Thread starter Gary Knowels
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Looks like a dragonfly nymph to me:
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Dragonfly
ptychocheilus
Smolt
pirating your question to rant:
I've been struggling with dragonfly nymph IDs for a while (Hagenius is the only genus that really jumps out to me), and was excited to stumble upon an announcement for a new field guide to dragonflies... Lam, Ed. 2024. Dragonflies of North America. Princeton University Press. So of course I buy it, anxiously awaiting illumination. Every species, lavishly illustrated with beautiful watercolors and detailed scientific illustrations of very high quality! However, there's exactly two illustrations of larvae in the book (one is of the emergence sequence)... taxonomically unlabeled, as if all larvae are identical.
Really, Ed? You go to the effort to draw EVERY goldang dragonfly on the continent (and detailed close-ups of their naughty bits!) and you can't be bothered to at least include larvae of each genus? Each family?! What the absolute what is wrong with people these days?!
[deleted comment about epiprocts to maintain veneer of civility]
Sigh. /end rant
I've been struggling with dragonfly nymph IDs for a while (Hagenius is the only genus that really jumps out to me), and was excited to stumble upon an announcement for a new field guide to dragonflies... Lam, Ed. 2024. Dragonflies of North America. Princeton University Press. So of course I buy it, anxiously awaiting illumination. Every species, lavishly illustrated with beautiful watercolors and detailed scientific illustrations of very high quality! However, there's exactly two illustrations of larvae in the book (one is of the emergence sequence)... taxonomically unlabeled, as if all larvae are identical.
Really, Ed? You go to the effort to draw EVERY goldang dragonfly on the continent (and detailed close-ups of their naughty bits!) and you can't be bothered to at least include larvae of each genus? Each family?! What the absolute what is wrong with people these days?!
[deleted comment about epiprocts to maintain veneer of civility]
Sigh. /end rant
You beat me to it !
Maybe 3/4"
