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Paddle-tailed darner

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  1. View Flown Kimmerling's profile
    Flown Kimmerling
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    WOW! What a capture! Posted 6 years ago
  2. View Ferdy Christant's profile
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    Awesome! Quite late for them to be mating, or not? Posted 6 years ago
    1. View morpheme's profile
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      Dragonfly larvae are able to overwinter (the adults don't - they only live 6-7 months)- even under the ice, so I guess this is normal behavior for them. I would wonder if it would be possible for them to make a living up so high in the mountains if they couldn't... The lake is at around 5,100 feet (1,555m), so the snow may not even completely melt out until May or June. Posted 6 years ago
      1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
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        Most probably can't overwinter as adults, but nature often has its exceptions. I still hope to find this one day:
        http://www.johannesklapwijk.com/soort/Noordse-winterjuffer--Sympecma-paedisca.htm

        One of only 2 species in the Netherlands able to overwinter. I still can't believe how a cold blooded animal can survive such winters fully in the open.         Posted 6 years ago
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          That's pretty crazy looking... they appear to be frozen. I wonder if they have some sort of internal anti-freeze like arctic woolley bear caterpillars - they can survive multiple freeze and thaws waiting for the perfect conditions to turn into butterflies. Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago
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            I'm trying to find more information on how they do it, no luck so far. Did find it's cool english common name: Siberian Winter Damsel. Posted 6 years ago

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The Paddle-tailed darner

Paddle-tailed darner is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. It is common throughout western Canada and United States. This species is named after its distinctive paddle-shaped appendages. It lives in many habitats, particularly lakes, ponds, and slow streams, usually with dense shore vegetation. ''Aeshna palmata'' was scientifically described for the first time in 1856 by Hermann Hagen.

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Similar species: Dragonflies And Damselflies
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Uploaded Sep 28, 2018. Captured Sep 27, 2018 13:03 in Snoqualmie Pass, WA 98068, USA.
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  • X-E2
  • f/9.0
  • 1/100s
  • ISO200
  • 560mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.