My backyard in Boca is lousy with damselflies. In most months of the year, I can expect to see several different species. The most common visitor is the dainty Everglades Sprite (Nehalennia pallidula). We also get Citrine Forktail (Ischnura hastata) fairly regularly. The next most frequent visitor (and more abundant than all but Everglades Sprite when present) is Rambur’s Forktail (Ischnura ramburii). Fragile Forktail (Ischnura posita) I usually see once or twice a year. Southern Sprite (Nehalennia integricollis) appears every couple of years.
What all of these damselflies have in common is that they’re tiny. Even for damselflies, these ones are usually on the small side, with very slender abdomens that look like they’d snap in half in a stiff breeze.
But every once in a very long while, we get the larger damselflies in the bluet family. And that happened this week. Here’s the proof:
Side view of Bluet (presumably Atlantic, Enallagma doubledayi). 
Bluet (presumably Atlantic, Enallagma doubledayi), top view. 
Bluet (presumably Atlantic, Enallagma doubledayi), demonstrating great form and core strength in a pike position. 
Bluet (presumably Atlantic, Enallagma doubledayi), practicing for oviposition, perhaps. 
Bluet tail parts. Presumably Atlantic, (Enallagma doubledayi).
