SINGAPORE - 11 MAR 2026: 11.40am. I spotted the red male Scarlet Skimmer outside 29 Lentor Plain today. Hovering over small flowers for more than 30 minutes. Bright sunshine. Owner had just hosed the outside and his plants.
So I had the chance to take several poses of this sole red dragonfly.
Image of the MALE Scarlet Skimmer (Crocothemis servilia) is blood-red, with a thin black line along the mid-dorsal abdomen. His eyes are blood-red above, purple laterally. His thorax is bright ferruginous, often blood-red on dorsum and the anal appendages are blood-red. In comparison, the female has olivaceous-brown thorax and abdomen.
Outside 29 Lentor Plain. Stayed for many minutes
Canon R5, 220mm, 1/2000sec, f/5.6, iso 500
Sunny afternoon. 11.40am
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Female Scarlet Skimmer was seen several days earlier at Yio Chu Kang Cres forest where no red dragonflies were spotted.
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13 Mar 2026. Dragonfly on twig stayed, flew off and back for over 30 minutes. Chased off another female. Hot afternoon sun. sweat. I sat on a chair near the pile of wooden chips. Tower-like abdomen.
Trithemis pallidinervis or Long-legged Marsh Glider. Said to be rare in Singapore.
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13 Mar 2026. 8.53am. Yio Chu Kang Cres forest.
Canon R5 300mm tripod
1/1000 sec, f/5.6 and iso 4000.
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