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S7 and S8 are good for Gilded. S4, 5 and 6 while small for Gilded are larger than the hybrid. The vertex looks yellow, good for Gilded. Shoulder stripe is longer than the hybrid.

individual ovipositing, grabbed by a connected pair - I'm still not quite sure what is going on here but she's at the bottom. Looks like two males above?

ID for smaller insect.

Found this garter snake cuddling with an eastern milksnake.

Observation faite dans le cadre de l’Initiative pour un atlas des libellules du Québec.

Observation made under the Initiative for a Quebec Dragonfly Survey.

Observation faite dans le cadre de l’Initiative pour un atlas des libellules du Québec.

Observation made under the Initiative for a Quebec Dragonfly Survey.

It was flying carrying a cicada! After ripping the cicada wings off mid-flight, it landed in a tree for what I suppose was consumption.

Magee Marsh Visitor Center

The one doing the eating.

Attacked by Ants

Eating butterfly.

Oxbow

Please compare to B pennsylvanicus, I am debating between the two. Found in northern Ohio visiting Dipsacus fullonum. You can’t see it well in these photos but the scutellum is all yellow

oviposition, familiar bluet on forewing