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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
(2,067 posts)1. Beautiful!
I love dragonflies!
Mousetoescamper
(5,509 posts)2. Thanks!
Easterncedar
(3,650 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
(5,509 posts)4. Thanks!
I'm going to post photos of blue dasher nymph exoskeletons I took Monday.
Easterncedar
(3,650 posts)5. I will enjoy seeing them!
Metamorphosis is a fascinating phenomenon
CaliforniaPeggy
(152,472 posts)6. Beautiful composition! What an exquisite creature. Thank you! nt
Mousetoescamper
(5,509 posts)8. Thanks and you're welcome!
crickets
(26,153 posts)7. Wow. Fantastic photo! nt
Mousetoescamper
(5,509 posts)9. Thanks!