Flight season: late May to late September.
Population: common, encountered anywhere along the Moira River and other similar fast water habitats.
Often found foraging along the trans-Canada Trail a good distance from water.
Length: about 40 mm. Males with their extensive white pruinosity are distinctive, no other damsefly in this part of the county resembles the females.
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Tweed, Ontario, the Moira River, near the walking bridge and dam:
rock-bottomed river with fast flowing water, rapids and emergent rocks, but also quiet pools and backwaters.
The shoreline vegetation is mostly trees with a few small clearings supporting tall grasses and wildflowers.
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Male Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta)
July 18, 2009
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Male Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta)
August 28, 2009
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Female Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta)
August 21, 2009
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Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta) – large groups of tandem and mating pairs often congregate along the shoreline and on emergent rocks.
The females lose their normal blue color and turn dull while mating (August 21, 2009).
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Teneral male Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta)
July 30, 2010
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Teneral female Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta)
May 30, 2016
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East of Tweed, Ontario, along Lakeview Lane, near the trans-Canada Trail and Alexander Street:
roadside clearing in shrubbery and woodland supporting tall grasses and wildflowers, a short distance from the Moira River.
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A brown form female Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta),
this color variation is less common than the blue form
(July 03, 2014).
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