Look what i found Yesterday Part2

Lord Vetinari

Should make it a bit more obvious what the bug is

Brian V.







Discarded shell

Dalantech

Sweet! I've never had the chance to film a damselfly emerging -I always seem to catch them and dragons slightly after they've come out. Excellent shots Brian!!

Lord Vetinari

Dalantech wrote:

Sweet! I've never had the chance to film a damselfly emerging -I always seem to catch them and dragons slightly after they've come out. Excellent shots Brian!!

Thanks John
I was very suprised to find this next to my koi pond, although I know damsels lay their eggs in it, I thought the koi would make short work of anything that hatched. I nearly missed it emerging - it must have started whilst I was having lunch.

Brian V.

ziggy53

Note to ziggy, "read part 2".

Especially cool how their wings are sheathed. Thanks for sharing this wild miniature world with us.

Mondo cool!

Skippy

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Should make it a bit more obvious what the bug is
Brian V.
Discarded shell

These are brilliant
How long did it take for the Damsel to be able to stretch it's wings out and fly off?

It's quite a remarkable morphing process they go through.
Excellent Captures Brian .... Skippy
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Lord Vetinari

ziggy53 wrote:

Note to ziggy, "read part 2".

Especially cool how their wings are sheathed. Thanks for sharing this wild miniature world with us.

Mondo cool!

Thanks Ziggy
I find this sort of thing both fascinating and beautiful
Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

Skippy wrote:

These are brilliant
How long did it take for the Damsel to be able to stretch it's wings out and fly off?

It's quite a remarkable morphing process they go through.
Excellent Captures Brian .... Skippy
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Thanks Skippy- was lucky to catch this. I did totally cheat by bringing the damelfly nymph inside so I could keep an eye on it and even then it started the process whilst I was eating lunch

I did return the damselfly to the outside after but it still hasn't stretched it's wings fully 24hrs after emerging. It's body has elongated considerably and coloured up.

Brian V.

tlee

Wow. Thanks for sharing!!

Awais Yaqub

These are beautiful !

RogersDA

Both this and the other set are quite nice.

It's amazing..you got 'em trained to sit and trained to pop out just for you.

Maestro

Okay at first I thought this was bug porn. But quickly realized it was through "the change" or least shedding its old skin.

Great close up series of something I certainly do not see otherwise!

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments all,
Obviously it's a damselfly hatching from the old underwater larval stage.
Was quite amazing to watch this
Brian V.