Category: Praying Mantises

  • Common Whitetail Dragonfly

    Common Whitetail Dragonfly

    I’m constantly learning things as I dig through my books and page through various sites on the internet. One of today’s new things is the word to describe the color quality of the abdomen of a male Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia). That word: pruinose, which means frosted in appearance. Makes me think of blueberries which…