The Arrowhead Spiketail is a large dark dragonfly with green eyes that come together in a single point and two yellow thoracic side stripes. It is easily identifiable by the yellow arrow shaped top spots that run across most of its abdomen.
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Males often patrol low over streams. Females typically leave the breeding habitat until they are mature. Hunting takes place while patrolling streams or in fields adjacent to streams. Not overly wary but when flushed will often retreat to the tree tops.
Small fast-moving spring-fed forest streams and seeps with soft muddy/silty bottoms
Females oviposit alone by hovering low over the water and then stabbing there ovipositor into the substrate at the bottom of a stream. They do this repeatedly in quick succession then may move to a new location and repeat the process.
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