Similar species –
Spahgnum Sprite (Nehalennia gracilis).
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Flight season: mid-May to late August.
Population: probably the most common local odonate, found at virtually all vegetated still and slow water habitats.
During the peak of their flight season hundrdes can be found in a small area, keeping low amidst the tall grasses and sedges.
Length: about 25 mm, very gracile, our smallest local damselfly.
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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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Male Sedge Sprite (Nehalennia irene)
May 31, 2010
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Female Sedge Sprite (Nehalennia irene)
May 31, 2010
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Female Sedge Sprite (Nehalennia irene)
May 31, 2010
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Sedge Sprite (Nehalennia irene), wheel
May 31, 2010
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Stoco Fen, east of Tweed on East Hungerford Road:
relatively little open water compared to a marsh.
Wetland supporting sedges, orchids, Bog Labrador Tea, Pitcher Plants
and other fen indicator species, trees are mainly Tamarack and Eastern White Cedar.
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Male Sedge Sprite (Nehalennia irene), terminalia
June 22, 2014
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