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2019 Crook Street Highlights

A few photos from the 2019 season at the Crook Street Wetlands. Not the best year weatherwise.
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070619 Twelve Spot Skimmer, Libellula pulchella, Crook Street Wetlands.
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070619 Twelve Spot Skimmer, Libellula pulchella, Crook Street Wetlands.

From Odonata of Lorain County 2019

  • Dot-tail Whiteface sharing a leaf with an Eastern Forktail. 070419, Crook Street Wetlands.
  • 070619. Slaty Skimmer female, Libellula incesta. Note the little beetle at the end of the stalk.,
  • 070619. female Slaty Skimmer. I wish I had more shots of this one, to find out the fate of the tiny beetle. It turned around from the previous shot.
  • 070619. Common Whitetail, Plathemis lydia. Not a good shot, but they were not as common this year as usual
  • 070619 Twelve Spot Skimmer, Libellula pulchella, Crook Street Wetlands.
  • 070619. Eastern Amberwing male, Perithemis tenera. Nice reflection!
  • Mature Widow Skimmer. 7/06/19. Grafton Ohio.
  • 071919. Spicebush Butterfly.
  • 071919. Micrathena gracilis. These hard shelled spiders always fascinate me.
  • 071919. Michigan Lilies are still increasing here.
  • 071919. Male Slaty Skimmer, Libellula incesta. Not sure what he is munching on.
  • 071919. This Turkey Vulture was checking out the newly mown area, and from the smell, there was much he would be interested in. What surprised me was what an expressive facial expression it had. Blow it up!
  • Blue Dasher, Pachidyplax longipenis. 7/24/19 , Grafton Ohio. One of the most common and wonderfully beautiful of the local dragons. This is a male in pretty good condition.
  • 072419. Ruby Meadowhawk, Sympetrum rubicundulum.
  • 072419. Another view of a Ruby Meadowhawk.
  • Blue -tipped Dancer, Argia tibialis. This one is a female. Males were camera-shy in Lorain County in 2019. Crook Street Wetlands, 072419.
  • 072419. Monarch Butterfly on Swamp Milkweed.
  • 072419. Female Ruby Meadowhawk.
  • Young Widow Skimmer, Libellula luctuosa. 7/24/19, Grafton Ohio.
  • 072419. Liatris, including a few white ones. The Liatris display here is one of the most spectacular I have seen.
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