No dulcimer, but a damsel*

This damselfly was tiny, and much tinier still were the colorful parasitic mites on it.

Today’s photograph comes from July 21 along the upper reaches of Bull Creek.

UPDATE: On August 28th a person at BugGuide.net identified this damselfly as a male Argia translata, known as a dusky dancer.

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* The reference in the title is to the last part of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.”

© 2016 Steven Schwartzman