April welcomes the Odonates (dragonflies and damselflies) who swim up from their larval infancy, spread wings and, as they have for three hundred million years, take on the job of controlling the buzzing clouds of Diptera (gnats, flies, mosquitos and the like) that, like the dragonflies themselves, rise each spring from the waters they require in order to reproduce.
This Southwestern dragonfly is called the Black Filigree and since the dark patterns on the wings are lighter and more brown than black, she is identifiable as a female of the species.