Observation of the Week: eastern forktail

This week's feature is an eastern forktail, photographed and logged by iNaturalist user mmunc near Ottawa, Ontario. Forktails like this species are among the smallest damselflies, and females are orange at the start of their winged-adult stage but eventually change to slate blue as they mature.

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damselfly by mmunc