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palmbob Acton, CA(Zone 8b) Nov 02, 2008

see these in my yard a lot, though no water around. Southern California

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Sheila_FW Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Nov 02, 2008

Maybe a Neon Skimmer, they hang around my pond.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/311/

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Malus2006 Coon Rapids, MN(Zone 4a) Nov 02, 2008

My guess is a flame skimmer - your picture seem to have a bit of black (excluding the body showing throught its wings) on its wings closest to it's body and the amount of orange on its wings match. Neon skimmer only had a small patch of orange on its wings and are strongly red. Flame skimmer only have orangish bodies. Scientific name is Libellula saturata. If it was brillient red, then id would be tough as there appear to be 4 or 5 species in southern California. Habitation include ditches, ponds, lakes, springs and stream pools so they are not picky about where they lay their eggs. Maybe your dragonflies comes from a yet to be discovered small body of water the book says most western dragonflies will larvae in any open body of water.

I got the info from the book, Dragonflies through Binoculars.

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Enmos Lelystad, Netherlands Nov 09, 2008

I agree with Flame Skimmer (Libellula saturata).
http://images.google.nl/images?source=ig&hl=nl&rlz=&=&q=libellula%20saturata&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

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