#Libellula vibrans

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thought you guys could appreciate this

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A Great Blue Skimmer (Libellula vibrans) dragonfly hanging around the Bluebird House this morning...

[swede1952]

Can't see me.

I think this is a Great Blue Skimmer dragon fly (Libellula vibrans). I took this out at Alligator Lake yesterday. I have a better photograph, where you can see the whole insect, but I kind of like the way this looks.

"The great blue skimmer (Libellula vibrans) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. With a total length of 50 to 63 mm, it is one of the largest skimmers. The immature forms of the skimmer are brown in color and mature forms are blue-hued. This species is found near lakes, ponds, and slow streams in the eastern United States[ and rarely in southern Ontario" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_blue_skimmer

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This Great Blue Skimmer is a Throwback to Summer

This Great Blue Skimmer is a Throwback to Summer shows readers an image from early August and explains the basic process that took it from its original state to this state.

Blue Dragon I took this photo of a male great blue skimmer (Libellula vibrans) back in the beginning of August, and I loved the patterns of the veins visible in the wings, but it definitely needed some work to help bring out the pattern. It took a while to get it to where I wanted it. I’d work on it, think it was okay and then go back the next day and see more that needed to be done. I think…

[celestialmacros]

Great Blue Skimmer (Libellula vibrans)

June 5, 2022

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[humanbyweight]

Female & male Great Blue Skimmers (Libellula vibrans)

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Great Blue Skimmer Dragonfly (Libellula vibrans)

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Libellula vibrans, Great Blue Skimmer.

This old and battle worn friend came to sit for a photo session with me. Full resolution version here!

[myrachidh]

Male Dragonfly ~ Great Blue Skimmer - Libellula vibrans ~ Libellule ~ Station Park ~ Sparta, New Jersey #Male #Dragonfly #MaleDragonfly #Skimmer #GreatBlueSkimmer #Libellula #Libellulavibrans #Libellule #StationPark #Sparta #NJ #NewJersey #Macros #insects #insectsofinstagram #entomology #Wildlife #wildlifephotography ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachidh/albums (at Sparta, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDuaMUHgCx1/?igshid=1o5shfqn2tg4i

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Blue skimmer, (Libellula vibrans) Little blue heron, (Egretta caerulea) Central Florida.

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A photogenic Libellula vibrans I met [3000x2000] https://ift.tt/2NTCk25

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Okay, so one of the dorky things I do is take pictures of stuff out there in The Real World and upload it to places like iNaturalist.com or Odonatacentral.org or paherpsurvey.org because it���s important for us to really understand populations of things.  How is our ecosystem doing?  I mean, yeah, we have “science” to tell us how things are going but “science” depends A LOT on boots on the ground, actual human beings going out there and looking for stuff, taking pictures of the stuff, and putting a pin in the map for the stuff.

Are there rattlesnakes (C. horridus) in Fulton County, Pennsylvania?  Sure.  I saw one earlier this year.  They’re around and about.  You know how many records PARS has for rattlesnakes in my county?  4.  Does that mean there are only four?  No.  It means nobody is reporting them.

Odonatacentral.org has a list of the dragonflies and damselflies that one might find in Fulton County, PA.  Said list did not include the Arrowhead Spiketail (Cordulegastar obliqua) or the Vesper Bluet (Enallagma vesperum) or the Great Blue Skimmer (Libellula vibrans) until I submitted pictures of them to prove that they are here.

The Vesper Bluet, okay, that is not a big bug.  It’s a bluet, kind of small and narrow.  You’d have to look for them.  But...

Here’s a Great Blue Skimmer:

It’s hard to tell from the picture, but trust me, that is a large damn dragonfly.  Body’s about two inches long, wingspan is about three inches.  It’s not small.

Arrowhead Spiketail:

These are not small, inconspicuous bugs.  They’re kind of huge.  Flashy.  (The bug-in-hand pictures are bugs that are released unharmed.  I’m not out there murdering dragonflies for photo ops.)

So... the scientific record kind of sucks.  But, you can fix that, even if you live in East Bumblefuck, like I do.  Perhaps ESPECIALLY if you live in East Bumblefuck, you can fix this because NOBODY ELSE IS OUT THERE DOING IT.  

You don’t like dragonflies?  Don’t do them.  You can do almost any living thing and I guarantee there is a need for the science world to have boots on the ground about it.

Do you like wildflowers?

How about fungi?

Looks fake.  IS NOT FAKE.  Grows in the mountains of Pennsylvania.  Color is pretty accurate.

Chanterelles.  Pretty, easy to see, plus delicious.

Birds, mammals, fish, snakes, frogs, newts, bugs of all sorts, caterpillars (some of which are quite striking)... seriously, anything you want to do.  Plants of all kinds.  

Basically, all you need are boots on the ground, a smartphone, and an app.  Take a clear picture of what you see, upload it as an observation, geotagged, with any notes you might have, and boom. Robert is your mother’s brother and you have added a boot to the ground for science.  Plus also gets you outside.

It’s like collecting pokemon, but harder.

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The great blue skimmer (Libellula vibrans) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. With a total length of 50 to 63 mm, it is one of the largest skimmers. The immature forms of the skimmer are brown in color and mature forms are blue-hued. This species is found near lakes, ponds, and slow streams in the eastern United States and rarely in southern Ontario. (at Arlington, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRcVJFbMT9Y1hIr1GFGUD43bZv8gSJ6ILAZO140/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Great Blue Skimmer (Libellula vibrans) resting in the prairie, Houston, TX

photographs by Paxon Kale

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A Colorful and Curious Great Blue Skimmer

A Colorful and Curious Great Blue Skimmer tells readers the story of the author’s encounter with a male great blue skimmer. It also shares the author’s favorite image from that afternoon.

Inquisitive I had a fantastic time the other day with this beautiful male great blue skimmer (Libellula vibrans). I had already put the dogs out for their afternoon walk, so I wasn’t planning to take any pictures. I had gone around behind the dog house to check on the passion fruit vines when I noticed the skimmer patrolling the area. Of course, the dogs had followed me, and their running around…

[celestialmacros]

Great Blue Skimmers (Libellula vibrans)

June 6, 2021

Southeastern Pennsylvania