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catbird8 wrote:
While we are in the identifying mode, I have posted this picture in a different thread, asking for help. I am anxious for any help I can get.

I have matched this dragonfly with all of the main key identification points except for the yellow stigma.

Another poster asked about the relationship between dragon and damselflies but didn't catch a reply, if any.
To my knowledge they are both sub-orders of the Odonata Order. Neither is a sub-order of the other.

You can see in the attached picture that the dragonfly is eating a large fly. Another poster was amazed at what they will eat. Some of them are very fierce and will eat larger dragonflies.

Please, anyone, help me ID the attached.