Blue Skimmer at Isabella Plains, ACT
Identification history
| Orthetrum caledonicum | 9 Jan 2020 | HarveyPerkins | ||
| Unidentified | 7 Jan 2020 | Christine |
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User's notes
Possibly longer than 50mm. This dragonfly was tapping the end of its tail onto the water surface. Egg laying??
1 comment
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
10 Jan 2020
Your description is certainly very suggestive of a female Blue Skimmer egg laying.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.081382-35.422339
- Maps Isabella Pond Tuggeranong Creek to Monash Grassland
- Places Isabella Plains, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 6 Jan 2020 03:15 PM Recorded on
- Christine Recorded by
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Orthetrum caledonicum Scientific name
- Blue Skimmer Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1529.4m Recorded at altitude
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