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Skeeter hawk bath 2025-07-21

This dragonfly repeatedly swooped down to the dog bath water and up.

I’m guessing it was drinking.

Maybe this is how they lay eggs? If so, it will be disappointed, since we do change the dog bath water from time to time.

It’s much easier to see the insect in the video:
https://youtu.be/zqUusDsAhpA Continue reading →

We were picking blackberries when this skeeter hawk landed on me.

The dragonfly just sat there for many minutes while I picked with my right hand.

Eventually it flew away.

The blackberries are very ripe and tasty.

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Skeeterhawk says, “come get your okra at Valdosta Farm Days today, at the historic Lowndes County courthouse, corner of Patterson and Central!”

Pictures and video by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 September 2012.

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Who keeps an eye on the okra patch while Gretchen’s selling okra at Downton Valdosta Farm Days?

Picture by John S. Quarterman at Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 July 2011.

Skeeterhawk, that’s who! Eat them skeeters, skeeterhawk!

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Perched on a longleaf candle:

And on electric fence wire: Continue reading →

Skeeter hawks with a mirror:

Dragon fly:

Another one, head on:

Pictures of Anisoptera by Gretchen Quarterman, 12 May 2010, Grand Bay, Lowndes County, Georgia.