We're finally at the end of July... and smack dab in the middle of Amberwing season. These little gems, which are said to be wasp mimics, are among the most sexually dimorphic of our odonates. This is a female, so told by its highly patterned wings. The males, by contrast, have almost entirely unpatterned wings, but the guys are the ones that give the species its common name and feature wings suffused with an amber glow. Often, I find individuals rather far from water—I spotted this female sunning herself in a meadow—but when I'm perched by the millpond, members of the Perithemis tenera clan are often flying close together in a kind of mating formation, the male patrolling the sky area just above his mate, who is busy depositing fertilized eggs in the water and on the emergent vegetation.