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Related: About this forumBlue dasher at sundown
Blue dasher skimmer dragonfly last night at The Wetlands at Long's Park, Lancaster, PA.
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Mousetoescamper
Jun 2024
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Goddessartist
(2,167 posts)1. Beautiful!
I love dragonflies!
Mousetoescamper
(6,497 posts)2. Thanks!
Easterncedar
(4,838 posts)3. Exquisite!
One of my happiest memories is of me and my Dad watching a dragonfly emerge from the rather unlovely water beetle-looking stage and unfurl its wet, fragile wings, which straightened and stiffened and glimmered in the sun. Miraculous.
Mousetoescamper
(6,497 posts)4. Thanks!
I'm going to post photos of blue dasher nymph exoskeletons I took Monday.
Easterncedar
(4,838 posts)5. I will enjoy seeing them!
Metamorphosis is a fascinating phenomenon
CaliforniaPeggy
(154,864 posts)6. Beautiful composition! What an exquisite creature. Thank you! nt
Mousetoescamper
(6,497 posts)8. Thanks and you're welcome!
crickets
(26,158 posts)7. Wow. Fantastic photo! nt
Mousetoescamper
(6,497 posts)9. Thanks!