Libellula luctulosa, Widow Skimmer Dragonfly

This dragonfly is the spectacular widow skimmer (Libellula luctulosa). They haunt large open and sunny places.

These fly in a fluttering manner, rather than the zipping about of most dragonflies.

Credit: Wayne Hughes, May 2009; photographed in the rolling hills of the Wolfskin district of the northeast Georgia Piedmont; used by permission. [source].

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