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All of these photos are by Father Francis Michael Stiteler, the Abbot of the monastery. The variety of these creatures on the monastery grounds is truly amazing. This is not a complete list by any means, and we will add others later.

Pachydiplax longipennis (blue dasher)	Perithemis tenera (eastern amberwing)	Progophus obscurus (common sanddragon)	S. ambignuum (blue-faced meadow-hawk)
S. tenebrosa (clamped-tip emerald)	T. carolina (red saddlebags)	T. lacerata (black saddlebags)	T. thoreyi (gray petaltail)