a blue dragonfly in the bluegrass regionmale eastern pondhawk - erythemis cimplicicollis
Not being a bugologist*, my identification might not be valid. But this puppy, supra, is interesting. He is an adult male, the females are green as are immature males. The males develop a pruinescence [in blue grapes a white frosting is pruinose] pigment coming from the cuticle covering the undercoat. Another name is green clearwing for this dragonfly. This bug will attack and eat bugs bigger than himself, including other dragonflies. This photo was taken 30 July 2011, in Nelson County, Kentucky on land belonging to Trappist monks.
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*yes, i know the term is 'entomologist', and 'bugs' are only one order of insects; this ain't a graduate seminar in zoology
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