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Banded Pennant (Celithemis fasciata) by John Petranka

Compare with: Halloween Pennant
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Distribution

Essentially statewide. Undoubtedly occurs in all 100 counties, though not yet recorded from three counties.

Abundance

Fairly common to often common in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont; fairly common in most of the mountains, but certainly rare or absent at higher elevations.

Flight

Most of the flight season -- late April to late September, rarely into October. The mountain flight is barely shorter.

Habitat

As with other pennants, it breeds at ponds and lakes, typically ones that are fairly open, frequently at man-made ponds.

See also Habitat Account for General Pond Shorelines

Behavior

Males are most often seen along the margins of ponds, making short patrols out over the water. This species usually doesn't stray too far from the margins of ponds and lakes.

Comments

This is another of our numerous pennants, perhaps slightly less numerous than the Halloween Pennant, but nonetheless quite widespread in the state and not hard to find by walking around the margins of open ponds and lakes with some marshy or emergent vegetation along the shores. Oddly, Dunkle (2000) gives its abundance rangewide simply as "local", which implies some scarcity or difficulty in finding, which does not fit the case in NC.

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Species account update: LeGrand on 2023-01-16 14:15:25

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Photo Gallery for Banded Pennant 48 photos are available. Only the most recent 30 are shown.		Other NC Galleries: Jeff Pippen Will Cook Ted Wilcox
	Photo 1 by: Amy Padgett Comment: Bladen, 2024-08-21, 2 miles SE of Clarkton - 1:15P at edge of pond		Photo 2 by: Amy Padgett Comment: Bladen, 2024-08-12, Suggs Mill Pond Gamelands, Horseshoe Lake - 2:30P along lake shoreline
	Photo 3 by: Amy Padgett Comment: Bladen, 2024-05-21, Pond 2 miles SE of Clarkton, NC - Male and Female at pond 2 miles SE of Clarkton, NC		Photo 4 by: Amy Padgett Comment: Bladen, 2024-05-21, Pond 2 miles SE of Clarkton, NC - Male and Female at pond 2 miles SE of Clarkton, NC
	Photo 5 by: Owen McConnell Comment: Orange, 2023-07-04, On cattails at edge of upper pond in Occoneechee Mt. State N.A. - Mating pair		Photo 6 by: Mark Shields Comment: Ashe, 2021-08-08, Ashe Park Pond, Jefferson
	Photo 7 by: Harry LeGrand, Lori Arent Comment: Johnston; C, 2021-06-17, Howell Woods Preserve		Photo 8 by: p dixon Comment: Madison, 2020-06-08, Hot Springs area
	Photo 9 by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Comment: Hoke, 2020-05-14, Nicholson Creek Game Land		Photo 10 by: Mark Shields Comment: Brunswick, 2019-06-26, Spring Lake Park, Boiling Spring Lakes
	Photo 11 by: Ken Kneidel Comment: Mecklenburg, 2019-05-18		Photo 12 by: Mark Shields, Hunter Phillips Comment: Carteret, 2019-05-07, Ponds along Patsy Pond Nature Trail, Croatan National Forest
	Photo 13 by: Mark Shields Comment: Scotland, 2018-09-03, Scotland Lake, Sandhills Game Land		Photo 14 by: A. Rawlings Comment: Gaston, 2018-07-23, Crowders Mountain State Park - female @ -81.290770, 35.210087
	Photo 15 by: Mike Turner Comment: Forsyth, 2018-07-08, Winston Lake		Photo 16 by: Mark Shields Comment: Pamlico, 2018-06-22, retention pond east of McDonald's on NC 55, Grantsboro - First record for county
	Photo 17 by: Mark Shields Comment: Chowan, 2018-06-09, Edenton National Fish Hatchery		Photo 18 by: Mark Shields Comment: Currituck, 2018-06-09, pond at Currituck Community Park near Maple
	Photo 19 by: Aaron Edmonds Comment: Harnett; C, 2018-06-06, Flat Branch- Two males observed at the same location within twenty feet of each other. Each exhibiting similar behavior.		Photo 20 by: Owen McConnell Comment: Granville, 2017-07-06, Holt Lake - male
	Photo 21 by: Barbara McRae Comment: Macon, 2017-06-28, Franklin, Little Tennessee River, Greenway - perched on cattail, beaver pond		Photo 22 by: Mark Shields Comment: Rutherford; P, 2017-06-02, Morse Park, Lake Lure
	Photo 23 by: Conrad Wernett Comment: Carteret, 2017-04-30, - Single specimen photographed at Patsy Pond, Croatan National Forest		Photo 24 by: Kevin Metcalf Comment: Mecklenburg, 2016-06-13, McDowell Nature Preserve - McDowell Prairie, near pond
	Photo 25 by: Mark Shields Comment: Bladen, 2016-06-10, Jones Lake		Photo 26 by: Mark Shields Comment: Brunswick, 2015-08-01, Boiling Spring Lakes - at North Lake Park
	Photo 27 by: Mark Shields and Zoology lab class Comment: Onslow, 2015-07-27, Coastal Carolina Community College, Jacksonville - at retention ponds		Photo 28 by: Conrad Wernett, Alyssa Wernett Comment: Richmond; C, 2015-06-14, - Too many to count around Scotland Lake.
	Photo 29 by: Owen McConnell Comment: Orange, 2015-05-26, Ayr Mount - female		Photo 30 by: Owen McConnell Comment: Graham, 2014-07-14, First pond on Buchanan Road - male