As summer comes upon us, the number of flying insects increases dramatically. I'm fascinated with these winged insects. When I can find them in nice photographic circumstances, I enjoy capturing them in all of there beauty.
The first image is a crane fly. There are numerous species of crane flys and I'm not certain of the exact species, but all crane flys have a lot of beauty in there wings and bodies.
Next up is my favorite dragon fly - the calico pennant. Both the males and females have such beautiful patterns and the mature male (pictured above) has the most beautiful gold and crimson coloring.
The close cousin of the dragon fly is the damsel fly. I'm really poor at identifying individual species in damsel flys. They have so many closely related identification markings that I give up and start lumping all of them together as just damsel flys.
Last image is a newly emerged prince baskettail dragon fly. As they mature, they have some really beautiful colors. Hopefully I'll get to share one of those with you later this summer.
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