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IRIS Greenville, SC(Zone 7a) Sep 24, 2007

This guy was about a one and a quarter to one and half inches long and skinny as a needle.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Sep 24, 2007

This is a Damselfly. I found a list of odonata in SC, the first three Families are Damselflies but few pics there.

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/dfly/sc/toc.htm

Without a very detailed picture you will have difficulty identifying it.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Sep 24, 2007

Here's a few hundred pics

http://odonatacentral.bfl.utexas.edu/gallery/thumbnail_gallery.asp

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Sep 24, 2007

More pics

http://bugguide.net/node/view/190/bgimage

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IRIS Greenville, SC(Zone 7a) Sep 24, 2007

Thanks Wallaby1 ! My God , There are gazzillions huh?!

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Floridian Lutz, FL(Zone 9b) Sep 24, 2007

LOL! Oh, sorry

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Floridian Lutz, FL(Zone 9b) Sep 27, 2007

Did you have any luck? I know I went through tons of pictures trying to ID a damselfly. When you finally think you have it the geographical range is wrong so you have to look some more. But at least there's lots of info and pictures out there unlike some bugs

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Sep 27, 2007

It may be a Fragile Forktail, with its broken shoulder stripes that look like exclamation points, the tiny green eyespots, and the thin rings on its abdomen:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/604/bgimage

Yours looks a bit yellow, but the lighting could have had a play in that.

The damsels and dragonflies are challenging, at any rate, yours seems to be a Forktail, Ischnura sp.

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