Band-winged Meadowhawk Dragonfly Images

Band-winged Meadowhawk Dragonfly Images, Facts and Information:

Sympetrum semicinctum

• Band-winged Meadowhawk males have a bright red abdomens with black markings on the lower sides and on the top of the segments 8 and 9, creating a U like pattern. The thorax is brownish red and the sides show three irregular black stripes. Face and eyes are dark red. The legs are black. The hind wings have a rusty patch at the base, covering one-third of the wings, while the front wings are almost completely transparent. Female Band-winged Meadowhawk are mainly greenish-yellowish or orange, with red over green on eyes and extended blackish markings on the abdomen. Mature females sometimes turn red like males, while immature males are yellow like females and slowly reach their red coloration.
• Band-winged Meadowhawks are native to Canada and Continental United States, from coast to coast.
• Band-winged Meadowhawk dragonflies can be found perched on vegetation along the edges of meadows, in weedy ponds, marshes and lakes, also in the hills or mountains.
• The flight period extends from April to mid October, but this dragonfly is more common in late summer.

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