Dragonfly

[PeterAit]

Taken in a salt marsh on the North Carolina coast. I have not been able to ID this critter, any ideas? Taken with an E-M1 and, of all things, the Panasonic 100-300 mm zoom lens at 240 mm.

[Rainer SLP]

Hi Peter,

Below you can find a list of the Dragonflies of North America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Odonata_of_North_America

[Rainer SLP]

May be the one below ?

Libellula needhami

http://bugguide.net/node/view/406487/bgimage

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

It certainly does look similar to the one Rainer suggested, but IMH Peter's photo is much nicer than the one in Wikipedia.

That's a beautiful capture, Peter!

[Rainer SLP]

It certainly does look similar to the one Rainer suggested, but IMH Peter's photo is much nicer than the one in Wikipedia.

That's a beautiful capture, Peter!

I agree 

...but having those images in the Internet with as many as different angles helps a lot for identifying the animals in nature. I was looking especially for that white stripe in front of the wings 

[BobDavid]

sweet

[Arlen]

That's a very appealing image, you managed to get it in front of a great background.

It looks like a skimmer type to me. It's hard to be sure without seeing more angles, but it's probably a female Yellow-sided Skimmer, Libellula flavida, which is found in North Carolina though it's apparently fairly uncommon.

http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/47124

A series of pictures of both males and females from different angles:  http://greglasley.com/nonBirds/yellowsideskim.html

[Rainer SLP]

That's a very appealing image, you managed to get it in front of a great background.

It looks like a skimmer type to me. It's hard to be sure without seeing more angles, but it's probably a female Yellow-sided Skimmer, Libellula flavida, which is found in North Carolina though it's apparently fairly uncommon.

http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/FieldGuideAction.get/id/47124

A series of pictures of both males and females from different angles:  http://greglasley.com/nonBirds/yellowsideskim.html

Thanks for that interesting Odonata Central page link