Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Dragonfly invasion!!!!, 1 by catbird8

catbird8 wrote:
KAUAI17, your dragonfly with white tail and black (actually dark brown) wing bands is a male Common Whitetail. Your first picture is a juvenile female Blue Dasher. I am building an album of dragonfly pictures and feel like I am going back to school. Takes a lot of study to identify every new visitor. For example, the red eyes on a Blue Dasher, male or female, signifies juvenile. If you are interested in dragonflies, I recommend "Dragonflies through Binoculars", by Sidney W. Dunkle (Amazon.com).
The only other readily available dragonfly book, reasonably priced, is Stokes' "Beginner's Guide to Dragonflies". It also has a section in the front on damselflies.

I would appreciate help from anyone that can identify the dragonfly in my photo attached. I can match up everything except the yellow stigma on the wing tips.

Note - the dragonfly is eating a fly, caught between shots.