Dragonflies of North America - A Color and Learn Book with Activities

Below are links to the colored pages found on the inside covers. We thought you might enjoy seeing them in a larger size. You have permission to download and print these images, as long as they are only for your personal use, and not for profit.

Also, feel free to add background, or to color the line drawings as the dragonfly might look at a different stage in its life, or in another part of its range.

And, of course, you can have fun inventing your own dragonflies!

Cheers!!
Kathy Biggs (text, book design and web master) and
Tim Manolis (editing and all illustrations)


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Page 3: Dragonfly - Lance-tipped Darner (Aeshna constricta)


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Page 4: Anisoptera/Dragonfly - Striped Meadowhawk (Sympetrum pallipes)


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Page 5: Zygoptera/Damselfly - Rambur's Forktail (Ischnura ramburii)


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Page 6: Dragonfly Eyes - Common Green Darner (Anax junius)


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Page 7: Damselfly Eyes - Vivid Dancer (Argia vivida)


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Page 8: Mouth - Common Green Darner (Anax junius)


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Page 9: Legs - Comanche Skimmer (Libellula comanche)


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Page 10: Wings - Neon Skimmer (Libellula croceipennis)


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Page 11: Dragonfly Life Cycle


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Page 12: Flame Skimmer male (Libellula saturata)


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Page 13: Flame Skimmer female (Libellula saturata)


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Page 14: Twelve-spotted Skimmer (Libellula pulchella)


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Page 15: Eight-spotted Skimmer (Libellula forensis)


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Page 16: Widow Skimmer male (Libellula luctuosa)


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Page 17: Widow Skimmer female (Libellula luctuosa)


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Page 18: Four-spotted Skimmer (Libellula quadrimaculata)


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Page 19: Roseate Skimmer (Orthemis ferruginea)


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Page 20: Wandering Glider (Pantala flavescens)


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Page 21: Red Saddlebags (Tramea onusta)


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Page 22: Eastern Amberwing (Perithemis tenera)


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Page 23: Calico Pennant (Celithemis elisa)


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Page 24: Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis))


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Page 25: Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)


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Page 26: Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina)


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Page 27: Hudsonian Whiteface (Leucorrhinia hudsonica)


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Page 28: Variegated Meadowhawk (Sympetrum corruptum)


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Page 29: Saffron-winged Meadowhawk (Sympetrum costiferum)


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Page 30: American Emerald (Cordulia shurtleffii)


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Page 31: Western River Cruiser (Macromia magnifica)


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Page 32: Pacific Spiketail (Cordulegaster dorsalis)


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Page 33: Blue-Eyed Darner (Rhionaeschna multicolor)


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Page 34: Common Green Darner (Anax junius)


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Page 35: Sinuous Snaketail (Ophiogomphus occidentis)


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Page 36: White-belted Ringtail (Erpetogomphus compositus)


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Page 37: Boreal Bluet (Enallagma boreale)


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Page 38: Variable Dancer (Argia fumipennis)


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Page 39: Painted Damsel (Hesperagrion heterodoxum)


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Page 40: Desert Firetail (Telebasis salva)


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Page 41: Great Spreadwing (Archilestes grandis)


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Page 42: River Jewelwing (Calopteryx aequabilis)


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Page 43: American Rubyspot (Hetaerina americana)


Cheers!!
Kathy Biggs (text, book design, web master) and
Tim Manolis (all illustrations and editing)