Flight season: late May to mid-September.
Population: common marshes along the trans-Canada Trail.
Length: about 40 mm, a robust damselfly.
The females have a large ovipositor,
the male's paraprocts are thick, distinctly spoon-shaped and bent inwards.
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Tweed, Ontario, about ½ km west of town, a marsh bordering the trans-Canada Trail:
typical local marsh with Cattails, sedges and other emergent vegetation, various small willows, alders, dogwoods and some Tamarack.
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Views of a male Emerald Spreadwing (Lestes dryas) and its claspers
(June 02, 2010).
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Female Emerald Spreadwing (Lestes dryas)
June 08, 2010
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East of Tweed, Ontario, near the intersection of Lajoie Rd. and the trans-Canada Trail:
a shady wooded area, with clearings both natural and created by the trail supporting grasses and wildflowers, the lagoon lies nearby to the northwest.
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Images of an older male Emerald Spreadwing (Lestes dryas) and its claspers –
note the pale bluish pruinosity on its thorax and the tip of the abdomen
(July 20, 2014).
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East of Tweed, Ontario, a marsh along the trans-Canada Trail:
some sedges and rushes present, but the vegetation is predominantly shrubs, Speckled Alder and various species of willow and dogwood.
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Emerald Spreadwing (Lestes dryas), tandem
July 02, 2014
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