Like a Lens to a Flame

It's a delight to see the flameskimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata). This male made its appearance in our Vacaville pollinator garden on May 17, and hung around long enough for me to capture several images. Like a lens to a flame... When folks talk about seeing "a red dragonfly," they might not know the species, but they do know it's firecracker red. "It was red! Firecracker red!" Ten fast facts about dragonflies, as provided by the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis: Dragonflies...