Wandering midget

The wandering midget is a tiny damselfly with black-capped green eyes and a black thorax striped with apple green; the male's abdomen is black above and pale green below on the first seven segments, with the last few segments bright orange red, while older males develop a white waxy bloom that can obscure these markings.

Females occur in several colour forms, from a mostly green pattern to a red form and forms that mimic the male's colouring, and both sexes breed in marshes, ponds and other still water, staying low over grass and flying only weakly and briefly at a time.