#calico pennant

[onenicebugperday]

I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy

[chemistfail]

Messy calico pennant w some artistic liberties

[capecodadventurepictures]

Calico Pennant in Falmouth 07/19/23

[futurebird]

Invertober 2023!

Invertober is back! The (mandatory) drawing challenge where you draw an invertebrate every day. It's for everyone and *mandatory.* Last year they had no ants on the list! I was very upset... this year there is one ant... an improvement, still so much more room to grow!

Let's shoot for 10 ants next year.

OK here is what you need to draw each day for the month:

Sunburst diving beetle (Themanectus marmoratus)

Silvery leaf cutter bee (Megachile leachella)

Little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata)

Emerald green snail (Papustyla pulcherrima)

Citrus root weevil (Diaprepes abbreviatus)

Coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus)

Common banded hover fly (Syrphus ribesii)

Calico Crab (Hepatus epheliticus)

Elephant hawk moth (Deilephila elpenor)

Periodical cicada (Magicicada septendecim)

Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

Eelgrass isopod (Pentidotea resecata)

Devastating grasshopper (Melanoplus devastator)

Blue glaucus (Glaucus atlanticus)

Owlfly (Libelloides macaronius)

Fuchsia flatworm (Pseudoceros ferrugineus)

Blue morpho (Morpho peleides)

Reddish-brown stag beetle (Lucanus capreolus)

White-spotted jellyfish (Phyllorhiza punctata)

European mantis (Mantis religiosa)

Pink crab spider (Thomisus onustus)

Red velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis)

Asian forest scorpion (Heterometrus spinifer)

African monarch (Danaus chrysippus)

Horned sea star (Protoreaster nodosus)

Torpedo bug (Siphanta acuta)

Iceland scallop (Chlamys islandica)

Striped pajama squid (Sepioloidea lineolata)

Tiger centipede (Scolopendra polymorpha)

Leopard slug (Limax maximus)

Halloween pennant (Celithemis eponina)

Let's goooo!

[peterborough-scapes]

Frequent Flyer

Celithemis Elisa (Calico Pennant)

©2022 Ken Oliver

[day-poems]

8/3

The Northern Blazing Star plants

are tall this year…taller by a foot

than last year…though not so thick…

and it looks like the bloom is going

to be stretched as well, as the

blossoms are far apart on the tall

stalks. Already the tops of the

tallest are in bloom. I always hope

for a photo of a pennant…Calico,

or Martha’s or Halloween…on a

blazing star boom…I check every

top bloom when I visit the Plains

this season…but this year the tops

are so tall only the Halloween is

likely that far from the ground. The

others are a bit delicate to land

on something as broad as a blazing

star head in full bloom anyway…

but I can hope. I did manage a shot

of a Calico on a bud yesterday, with

a full bloom in the background. That

might be as good as it gets this year…

with the the Blazing Star so tall.

[junekrisko]

Calico pennant dragonfly. . . . #Haliburton #MyHaliburton #MyHaliburtonHighlands #HaliburtonHighlands #OnHighlands #JuneKriskoArtist #JuneKriskoPhotography #CalicoPennantDragonfly #Canon100mm #Canon6DMarkII #YourShotPhotographer #ShareCanGeo #NatGeo — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/j0FY9Pa

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Calico Pennant (Celithemis elisa) by jonnx12 Via Flickr: Dorchester County, Md

[speakingofnature]

The male Calico Pennant (Celithemis elisa), unlike most dragonflies, is not territorial. This is why you may see several of these richly-colored odonata perched in a small area along a pond shoreline.

[debunkshy]

Calico Pennant Arena Barrens, WI 13 June 2019

[dendroica]

Calico Pennant, Celithemis elisa (by me)

[onenicebugperday]

@sonofsimon​ submitted: i met some nice dragonflies this weekend. A Four-spotted Skimmer.

And a Calico Pennant.

Both VERY beautiful but the calico pennant is one of my favorite species! I hope they know how much I love and admire them

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

A beautiful Calico Pennant (Celithemis elisa) attracted to the mercury vapor lamp at a moth night last July. It’s always a treat when dragonflies show up in the middle of the night!

[capecodadventurepictures]

Calico Pennant in Falmouth 07/06/23

[toddjdreyer]

Celithemis elisa / Calico Pennant

[peterborough-scapes]

Fire Red

Celithemis Elisa (Calico Pennant)

©2022 Ken Oliver