Dragonfly: Maroon

Will search the name later, at the mean time, enjoy the beauty of this beautiful maroon dragonfly which perched on my mom's orchid.

Dragonfly: Macros

This dragonfly came to visit our garden yesterday. He didn't mine my taking his pictures. Managed to capture him up-close and personal. Gosh, they are just a brilliant and unique God's creation!

He's perching on the eggplants

Macro on his head, you can see his big compound eyes (orange and grayish), the forehead (right in between the compound eyes) and the face.

the abdomen

Back of the head.

Dragonfly: Clubtail

I am certain this one is from the clubtail genus but am not sure if it was an Ozark or Cobra. They look similar and I can't seem to narrow it down. Captured at the lake area in Bukit Cerakah.

Dragonfly: Yellow-winged Darter

Yellow-winged Darters

I am not an Odonatologist nor have I the deep knowledge about the odonata species but I try hard to look in the internet source to find the closest matching darters and compare them with my own photos.

An almost unmistakable darter, red-bodied in the male, with both sexes having large amounts of saffron-yellow colouration to the basal area of each wing, which is particularly noticeable on the hind-wings. Other darters species may have limited yellow-orange colouration near the extreme wing-bases, especially in females, but never so extensively as in this species. (Source: Yellow-winged darter, Wikipedia)

Dragonfly: Black Darter

Black Darter

This one is a Black Darter, I think. Locally common and widespread. According to the Wikipedia, the female's abdomen is mainly yellow, becoming browner with age. It has small yellow patches at the wing bases. The male has a mainly black thorax and abdomen. The abdomen has small yellow marks on the side, that darken with age. The wings are clear.

So I'm sure this one is a she.

Dragonfly: Red-veined Darter

I love dragonflies and have been capturing their photos whenever I went outdoors. This will my first post about dragonflies. I use Nikon D40X to capture all my photos, there are some using Fujipix S5000.

Red-veined Darter

Found this Red-veined Darter near a small stream by my father-in-laws house in Tangkak. I think this species is locally common as it can be found almost anywhere.

I manipulated this darter for my header and changed the body to magenta to match my blog. I thought the magenta dragonfly doesn't exists but to my surprise, I found one two days ago near the manmade pond at Awan Besar R&R, KESAS Highway. I almost screamed coz my imagination has turned out to be real!