Blue Dragonfly (AKA- Mosquito Hawk)

It's eyes look like they are made of blown glass found in some exotic far away land.

Here is a random bug question: Do different color dragonflies mate with each other, or are the colors each a distinct species that only mate with the same color as themselves?
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Blue & Black Mating Dragonflies

These dragonflies are really thin bodied and have a crazy little clamper hook at the bottom of their tail. At first I thought the hook was possibly a stinger (somewhat scorpion shaped, like two half moons leaning into one another), which I have never seen on any other dragonfly before- but then I saw them mating and realized this clamp is holding the one on the bottom in place. By the neck. Hardcore!
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Dragonfly (aka Mosquito Hawk)

In Louisiana dragonflies are called mosquito hawks... since they eat tons of mosquitoes. The sucky part is in New Orleans they also spray pesticides like hell from these trucks driving up and down every street to kill all the mosquitoes, which ended up killing the dragonflies too. I am assuming in the end of this lame equation you end up with the same amount of mosquitoes.

Mosquito hawks in the smokey mountains of North Carolina seem a little smaller then the big ones flying in the southern swamps (maybe since they aren't mutated by constant chemical spraying), but the butterfly like colors on this one are something I have never seen before! I love it. I hope it saves me from a few mosquito bites... ;)

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