If you spotted this dragonfly out in the wild would you guess that it was called a blue dasher? Probably not but it is indeed a blue dasher...

Identifying dragonflies from pictures can be a tricky task. Organizations like Odonata Central will not even consider photographs as a recor...

The blue dasher is one of our fairly common skimmers. They are usually found around lakes, ponds or slow moving rivers and streams. These ...

Up here in Minnesota the realities of winter are starting to sink in. The light covering of snow that we got this past weekend looks like it...

This summer I had a lot of opportunity to go out and photograph nature. As a result I have been able to post every single day for over four ...

July is part of the peek season for pond dragonflies. So when I visited the bass Ponds on the third weekend in July there were a lot of drag...

Wood Lake Nature Center is located in the heart of Richfield , MN, which is a southern suburb of Minneapolis. The lake itself is very shall...

The dragonfly that was the most prevalent at the bass ponds when I visited in July was the blue dasher. A member of the Libellulidae fami...