American Emerald (Cordulia shurtleffii)

Common around mountain ponds & bogs coast to coast in Canada, in the western US, and from the Great Lakes to New England.
American Emerald (Cordulia shurtleffii) American Emerald (Cordulia shurtleffii)
Tuolumne Meadows in Mono Co., CA
16 July 2007

Note that this picture has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise. The dragon was hanging vertically in real life.

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