This lovely male, Ebony Jewel-wing Damsel fly (Calopteryx maculata), posed for a photo last week in the garden. These stunning creatures can be found throughout the Eastern US, usually near streams. Not only are they beautiful, but their diet includes mosquitos, aphids, fungus gnats, dogwood borers, and a long list of other insects. Once they are fattened nicely, then they are subsequently consumed by the likes of turtles, frogs, fish, bats, and birds.
