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Keeled Skimmer at Wildmoor Pool!

By July 17, 2018Blog

I was teaching a dragonfly ID course last weekend and we were out with nets in the torrid heat at Wildmoor Pool when one of the participants Carol Harvey caught a dragonfly. I removed it expecting to see a Black Darter and brilliantly it was a Keeled Skimmer- great catch Carol! Jennifer Lucas took these clear photos which have also enabled me to ask Bob Kemp to verify it- mainly because it was a fairly old and drab specimen and also because it’s the first record at Wildmoor Pool which is heavily recorded. There is a population some distance from the pool so it remains to be seen if this was an accidental occurrence or if they are establishing a second population…