Eastern Forktail (mature female) - approx. 3 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Ischnura
Species: Verticalis
Similar species: Rambur's Forktail
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Updated December 12 2010
Eastern Forktail (immature female) - approx. 3 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Ischnura
Species: Verticalis
Similar species: Rambur's Forktail
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Updated December 12 2010
Eastern Forktail (male) - approx. 3 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Ischnura
Species: Verticalis
Some females (rare) are patterned like the male
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Updated December 12 2010
Eastern Forktail Damselfly (male) on Glandular Touch-me-not - approx. 3 cm - High Park - June 2010
? - approx. 4 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
? - approx. 4 cm - Lower Don Valley (Brickworks) - July 2007
Familiar? Bluet damselfly (male) - approx. 3.5 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: Civile?
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Updated December 13 2009
Familiar? Bluet Damselfly (male)- approx. 3.5 cm - Humber Valley (Humber Arboretum) - August 2007
Familiar? Bluet damselflies (female & male) - approx. 3.5
cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma
Species: Civile?
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Updated December 13 2009
Familiar? Bluet Damselflies (female & male) - approx. 3.5 cm - West Don Valley (G. Ross Lord Park) - September 2007
? - approx. 4 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
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Updated February 3 2009
? - approx. 4 cm - Lynde Shores Conservation Area (Whitby) - September 2007
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Eastern Forktail Damselfly (mature female) - approx. 3 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - August 2007
Eastern Forktail Damselfly (immature female) - approx. 3 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - August 2007
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10 species
? - approx. 4 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
? - approx. 4 cm - Leslie Spit - August 2008
? - approx. 4 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: ?
Species: ?
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Updated February 3 2009
? - approx. 4 cm - Lynde Shores Conservation Area (Whitby) - September 2007
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? - approx. 3 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: Argia (Dancers)?
Species: ?
? - approx. 3 cm - Leslie Spit - September 2008
Very slow wing beats
Variable Dancer - approx. 3 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Genus: Argia (Dancers)
Species: Fumipennis
Variable Dancer - approx. 3 cm - Claireville Conservation Area - July 2010
Formerly called Violet Dancer
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
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Updated September 19 2011
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Large blue middle abdominal segments compared to
most other bluets
Female may be brown or blue with abdomen black above
Fragile Forktail (male) - approx. 2.5 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Ischnura
Species: Posita
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Updated February 4 2012
Fragile Forktail Damselfly (male) - approx. 2.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - June 2011
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Broken antehumeral stripe (resembling an exclamation
mark) is characteristic of this species
Unknown Bluet damselfy - approx. 3.5 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma?
Species: ?
Unknown Bluet Damselfly - approx. 3.5 cm - Leslie Spit - August 2008
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Possibly male coloured female (andromorph)
Orange Bluet? damselfy - approx. 3.5 cm
Order: Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Narrow-winged damselflies)
Genus: Enallagma?
Species: Signatum?
Orange Bluet? Damselfly on White Water-lily pad - approx. 3.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Brickworks) - July 2008
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta