Bad day for the dragon fly

craigmancraigman Registered Users Posts: 15 Big grins
edited December 1, 2005 in Holy Macro
Saw this next to a pond earlier this year. The robberfly had been flying around with the dragonfly and landed for a few seconds.

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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited December 1, 2005
    That's a big robber fly- great capture.

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  • TristanPTristanP Registered Users Posts: 1,107 Major grins
    edited December 1, 2005
    Wow - nice one.
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  • JimMJimM Registered Users Posts: 1,389 Major grins
    edited December 1, 2005
    WOW, what a grab!
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited December 1, 2005
    Great Capture
    craigman wrote:
    Saw this next to a pond earlier this year. The robberfly had been flying around with the dragonfly and landed for a few seconds.
    Those Robberflies look scary don't they, I've had two given to me in the past, and even when the things were dead I didn't like touching them rolleyes1.gif

    I can well imagine once the Robber has a hold of its prey there is virtually no chance of survival ........ gosh and in your shot he took on quite a large dragonfly too.

    Thanks for sharing, this is a great shot Craig...... Skippy (Australia)
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