When it comes to identifying members of the insect order Odonata, I'm reasonably good with the dragonflies, but their smaller, more dainty cousins, the damselflies, well, let's just say that I haven't yet done the hard work necessary to master the odonate suborder Zygoptera. A good part of the reason is, for better or worse, I remain squeamish about netting the critters and killing them in order to key them to species. As a result, even after almost a decade of documenting odonate populations, I still have to dismiss most of the zygopts as simply, damselflies. Some species, however, are so distinctive that they're easy to know, and the Fragile Forktail is one of them. This small member of the Ischnura clan has a can't-miss field mark: an exclamation mark on its thorax. This is unique among the damsels, and, as a result, Ishnura posita is one of a few zygopts I know instantly. I can also tell you that the little flier has taken on a second career as a chauffeur. This zygopt Uber driver is ferrying around a load of hitchhiking mites.