Birth of a dragon ?

Lord Vetinari

Well no- a red damselfly emerging from it's larval case. Some different angles taken with me leaning over the pond, camera in right hand, trying to clear the foliage and get an angle on the damselfly larvae with my lefthand. Eventually decided there was a high likelyhood of me dropping the camera in the pond .

Brian v.

clicketf3

Interesting. You just keep on teaching us more and more.

jsqueri

Speechless.

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments
Brian v.

Bassman

Straight out of Aliens! and again Amazing.

dlplumer

Lord Vetinari

Thanks Nassman and Dan for looking and commenting
Brian V.

Wicked_Dark

these are top notch as usual. Did you watch it fully emerge? I'm curious as to how long it took if you know.

Lord Vetinari

Wicked_Dark wrote: »

these are top notch as usual. Did you watch it fully emerge? I'm curious as to how long it took if you know.

Thanks,

Did not watch this one for the whole cycles but did another one. Takes about 25 mins from start of anything noticeable happening until the damsel fully leaves the old nymph case. Then get 30 mins wing elongation, 30 mins abdomen elongation and about 2 hours final drying before it's ready for it's maiden flight.
Whole of an emergence sequence starting top of this page http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/page4/ and then rest on page3

Brian v.