Why I Garden #20

Narrow-Winged Damselfly

Not all the color in our garden is from flowers and leaves. We have an ever-changing circus of insects crawling and flying through our yard. One colorful visitor that I have been watching for several weeks is a Narrow-winged Damselfly with a flashy blue thorax and tail. I'm not sure exactly which species it is, though it looks like an Arroyo Bluet to me. Regardless, I'm happy to have a few native insectivores livening up the back yard.

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Narrow-winged Damselfly

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Enallagma praevarum (Arroyo Bluet)

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