Comet Darner Dragonfly
Anax longipes
                    
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2013 Photograph, Comet Darner Dragonfly (Anax longipes, Aeshnid, Hawker or Darner Family Aeshnidae), Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2020.
Another name for dragonflies is "darners" or "devil's darning needles" in reference to the shape of their long abdomens.
Jian Zhe Li

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