Jarmo Juntunen
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by a beautiful Damselfly. Handheld, evening light.
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Maggie Terlecki
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Oh, good catch. I've got a few dragonflies and damsels in my day, but never flying around, always already landed. It is difficult to get them in mid-flight, so very cool!
Asher Kelman
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by a beautiful Damselfly. Handheld, evening light.
Jomo!
I like these critters!
Can you do more with a longer lens? At least for dragon flies, they have a route for foraging and if one just sits one will see them return to the same stalks time and again.
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Jarmo Juntunen
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Thank you both! Of all the furry/bulge-eyed/legged/non-legged creatures on Earth I too find dragons and damsels most fascinating. All that grace combined with their effectiveness as hunters (ok, I don't actually know what damselflies do for a living, lol). I've been trying all this summer to get a decent shot of them in mid-flight but I'm just too slow.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Like Dragon flies, they protect us by eating mosquito larva!
"Damselflies undergo incomplete metamorphosis, with an aquatic nymph stage. The female lays eggs in water, sometimes in underwater vegetation, or high in trees in bromeliads and other water-filled cavities. Nymphs are carnivorous, feeding on daphnia, mosquito larvae, and various other small aquatic organisms, using extendable jaws similar to those of the dragonfly nymph. The gills of damselfly nymphs are large and external, resembling three fins at the end of the abdomen. After moulting several times, the winged adult emerges and eats flies, mosquitoes, and other small insects. Some of the larger tropical species are known to feed on spiders, hovering near the web and plucking the spider from its nest." Source
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