DRAGONFLIES

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Re: DRAGONFLIES

Post by Placido » Mon Aug 29, 2016 11:56 am

Jacksparrow, you're very strange today, tadders and now this.
See top of this page ....... 2 years ago !! Wonder whether it's the same one :)
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Re: DRAGONFLIES

Post by Jacksparrow » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:08 pm

Placido wrote:Jacksparrow, you're very strange today, tadders and now this.
See top of this page ....... 2 years ago !! Wonder whether it's the same one :)
Oh yes! How coincidental. :) It won't be the same one. Daughter perhaps :dragonfly:
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Post by Kev » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:43 pm

Lovely.

Once in the flying stage they don't outlive the summer. The larvae usually take at least 2 years to go from underwater predators to flying ones!
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Re: DRAGONFLIES

Post by nuthatch » Tue Aug 30, 2016 1:18 pm

I'm tearing up here ... :unsure: seems so sad ... something so beautiful and takes so long to evolve ...
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Re: DRAGONFLIES

Post by Jacksparrow » Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:34 pm

nuthatch wrote:I'm tearing up here ... :unsure: seems so sad ... something so beautiful and takes so long to evolve ...
Don't get too sad. They've being on this life cycle since the age of the Dinosaurs and it works for them.
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Post by nuthatch » Wed Aug 31, 2016 9:46 am

Ok :cry2: :) unlike the dinosaurs :)
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Post by Placido » Sun Oct 30, 2016 12:32 pm

The only good bit about the current debacle in Bangladesh is spotting the extraordinary amount of dragonflies buzzing around the ground.
They are thick and fast which is more than can be said about the England batsmen - well OK, thick I'll go with ....... banghead :cry2:
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Re: DRAGONFLIES

Post by Jacksparrow » Sun May 31, 2020 8:46 pm

The first proper dragonfly of the season turned up today. A female Broad Bodied Chaser.
No photo I'm afraid as it never settled although it gave the ponds a good inspection from the air. :dragonfly:
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Re: DRAGONFLIES

Post by Willpar » Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:19 am

Good spot jacksparrow.
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Re: DRAGONFLIES

Post by Placido » Mon Jun 01, 2020 8:21 am

:trophy: :clap: Good spot !!
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