Common Whitetail dragonfly male. These dragonflies have amazing flight abilities, and have some of the highest ratios of flight muscle relative to body weight of any animal.
This male dragonfly allowed me to get fairly close to it and while I was photographing, it darted down and returned with a fly in its mouth. It then proceeded to eat the fly and totally ignore me. I never expected that they could be so fast and manouver with such large wings in an area where there were reeds and other plants. There are 5 species of Diplacodes in Australia.Photos out of the archives. November 2007 was a wonderful year for insects.