red damselfly hatching

Lord Vetinari

Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

May 8, 2009 edited May 12, 2009 in Holy Macro

Lucky enough to spot part of the sequence of a red damselfly emergence yesterday. Unfortunately it was on the underside of a leaf about 6" above the water which made the angles/exposures difficult especially when the wings expanded.
Timings are after the first shot.

Brian V

+ 15 mins

+ 50 mins

+ 2.5 hrs

+4 hrs

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Art Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins

May 8, 2009 edited May 8, 2009

VERY COOL INDEEDthumbthumbbowbow

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jax Registered Users Posts: 143 Major grins

May 8, 2009 edited May 8, 2009

Yep, terrific series!

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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

May 9, 2009 edited May 9, 2009

Thanks Art and Jax for looking and commenting - almost feel privileged to watch this.
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tijoseph Registered Users Posts: 187 Major grins

May 9, 2009 edited May 9, 2009

Wow! Ambsolutely amazing.

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sanka Registered Users Posts: 11 Big grins

May 10, 2009 edited May 10, 2009

Awesome patience and even better shots!

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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

May 10, 2009 edited May 10, 2009

Thanks again for the comments
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l2oBiN Registered Users Posts: 180 Major grins

May 10, 2009 edited May 10, 2009

Great behavioral series!

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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

May 11, 2009 edited May 11, 2009

l2oBiN wrote:

Great behavioral series!

Thanks Marko
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tlee Registered Users Posts: 1,090 Major grins

May 11, 2009 edited May 11, 2009

WoW!!!bow

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Candid Arts Registered Users Posts: 1,685 Major grins

May 11, 2009 edited May 11, 2009

tlee wrote:

WoW!!!bow

I concur...

What was the timeline that this happened in?

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rnickl Registered Users Posts: 56 Big grins

May 11, 2009 edited May 11, 2009

Spectacular series Brian!
Very interesting to see the changes take place. Hard to believe it all took place within a few hours.

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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

May 12, 2009 edited May 12, 2009

Thanks again for the kind comments - very lucky to spot the nymph.

CA times from the first shot are above the pics so total time was 4 hrs.

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