DRAGONFLIES

[Placido]

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

[Jacksparrow]

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

[Kev]

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!

[nuthatch]

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

[Jacksparrow]

I'm tearing up here ... 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.

[nuthatch]

Ok unlike the dinosaurs

[Placido]

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 .......