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How To: Studying Tropical Dragonflies and Damselflies
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Macromia illinoiensis Walsh, 1862 (Canada)

The latest 5 posted photos:

Johan van 't Bosch
  Heliocharis amazona (Suriname)
Phil Benstead
  Pantala flavescens (Tanzania)
Jesus Linares
  Hetaerina fuscoguttata (Venezuela)
Andres Hernandez
  Argia cupraurea (Panama)
Tom Kompier
  Erythrodiplax basalis (Brazil)

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