Visitors to the prairie garden: An eastern pondhawk dragonfly, an American snout butterfly, a question mark butterfly and an eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly. #butterflies#dragonflies#Lepidoptera#Odonata
I had a feeling that I’d see my first #dragonfly of the year today & I was right 🙂
A new species for me too – a male hairy hawker (Brachytron pratense) sunbathing in the grass 😻
Initially similar to other hawkers, like the migrant (Aeshna mixta) which I see a lot of, the hairy hawker flies much earlier in the year & is, well, hairy 🤷♂️🙂
Anyone know what the pink blob is under the anal appendages?