Neurothemis ramburii ramburii - Painted Grasshawk

There are two dragons at my location that are quite similar, but I can tell them apart easily enough. The hard part is telling the female from the male. I will get into this on a later post and will link back to this series.

Ramburii is a lot more nervous than the fluctuans, the similar dragon. I certainly won’t be getting close enough to lift the abdomen with my finger with a ramburii.

Normally here, I would state the difficulty of obtaining an image; easy or difficult. A few years ago, I would have said that all dragons were difficult, but my opinion has changed following a lot of practice. Ramburii has a reputation for being difficult, but I do not find it so.

Location is Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Alongside a stream and paddy fields.