I am gradually getting to the point where I can claim at least a modest amount of identification expertise with the dragonflies, but their smaller, more delicate cousins, the damselflies, well, that's a different story. The Ebony Jewelwings, a.k.a., the Black-winged Damselflies, oh, those are unmistakable and easy—nothing looks like an Ebony. The rest of the Zygoptera, a term derived from the Greek words for "yoked wings," often baffle me, and because I'm loathe to do any real collecting, I suspect they're going to continue to pose ID problems. There is, however, one additional Zygopt that I've come to know pretty well, and that one is called the Furtive Forktail. Sometimes the fork at the end of the abdomen is quite hard to see, but Ishnura posita has one good and, around here, unique field characteristic: an exclamation point on its thorax. I've never found these little black and yellow-green beauties to be particularly furtive, and almost every walk in certain areas will yield one or two resting on ferns and other vegetation. Then, it's just a matter of finding the proper punctuation.