Photo 46805415, (c) Brian Gooding, all rights reserved, uploaded by Brian Gooding

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What

Banded Pennant (Celithemis fasciata)

Observer

briangooding

Date

July 25, 2019 11:04 AM CDT

Description

Corpse of male Celithemis fasciata

I'm not sure what happened here. I looked up and thought I saw a male perched so drew closer and then realized it was not moving but appeared to be suspended in a reasonable perching spot, relatively undisturbed/decomposed.

I should've taken closer photos of the head...it looks like there are spiderwebs around it but I am not entirely positive about that. Maybe a fungus. It seemed odd a bird hadn't consumed it.

It was a bit breezy and the dragonfly was not dislodged nor did this appear recent.

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Copyright

2019