Blue Dasher

Key Characteristics: Face white; eyes torquoise blue (mature males) or green to reddish-brown (females/immature males); abdomen powder blue with black tip (mature male) or dark with narrow parallel yellow stripes (females/immature males); base of each hindwing with amber patch.

Description: Mature males: Face white; eyes torquoise blue; abdomen powder blue with black tip; thorax with black and yellow stripes; base of each hindwing with amber patch.

Females and immature males: Face white; eyes green to reddish-brown; abdomen dark with narrow parallel yellow stripes; base of each hindwing with amber patch.