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Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 11:56 am
by 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 :)

Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:08 pm
by Jacksparrow
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:

Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:43 pm
by 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!

Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 1:18 pm
by nuthatch
I'm tearing up here ... :unsure: seems so sad ... something so beautiful and takes so long to evolve ...

Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:34 pm
by Jacksparrow
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.

Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 9:46 am
by nuthatch
Ok :cry2: :) unlike the dinosaurs :)

Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 12:32 pm
by 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 ....... banghead :cry2:

Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 8:46 pm
by Jacksparrow
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:

Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:19 am
by Willpar
Good spot jacksparrow.

Re: DRAGONFLIES

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 8:21 am
by Placido
:trophy: :clap: Good spot !!