American Emerald

This American Emerald photo has waited in my blog queue since 26 April 2019. This species is an early flying dragonfly in Olympia—I found it hanging in the bushes, as typical for an Emerald. One of its characteristics is the thin yellow line at the beginning of the abdomen, This individual is immature. Later its eyes will turn emerald. They prefer forested edge areas, often flying in great numbers. This individual was in our backyad,  American Emeralds are found from Alaska across southern Canada, south to northern California in the west and North Carolina in the east.