Dragonflies at our Mt. Shasta pond, Dragonfly Roost, Summer 2008

In it's 3rd season the pond attracted several new species of dragonflies, and both 12-spotted and 4-spotted skimmers bread in large numbers. We now seen 10 species visit the pond: 12-spotted Skimmer, Western Forktail, Black Saddlebags, Shadow Darner, Pacific Forktail, Common Green Darner, Cardinal Meadowhawk, Black-fronted Forktail, Variegated Meadowhawk, and Swift Forktail (we might have introduced this one on plant matter), Four-spoted Skimmer,

newly emerged 12-spotted Skimmer(July)

Pacific Forktail male(July)

Variegated Meadowhawk(July)

female Variable Darner(August)