Common Name : Common Flangetail
Status : Common
Location : West Coast Park, Venus Drive, Lornie Trail, Rifle Range Nature Trail, Singapore Botanical Gardens
(Venus Drive, 25 Feb 2009)
This is one of the biggest dragonflies (about 12 cm long) that I have seen in Singapore, easily 4 times the size of Asian Pintail (see previous post). It is classified as a very common species but I would consider it relatively common as I have spotted them only 4 or 5 times so far. I first spotted it at West Coast Park and recently at a slow-moving open stream in Venus Drive. It has a aggresive look maybe due to its huge size and certainly not an easy species to get close. The nearest distance that I was able to shoot was more than a metre away but fortunately, it often returned to the same twig where it perched.
On 13 Sep 2010, I finally got an improvement shot of this giant dragonfly.
On 13 Sep 2010, I finally got an improvement shot of this giant dragonfly.
(Singapore Botanical Gardens - 13 Sep 2010)
3 comments:
Looks like a beast of a dragonfly! Great capture.
hey cool!
you sure have a great collections of dragonflies :D
Matt, Eason,
Thanks for dropping by and your kind comments :D
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