I have just started to notice the dragonfly buzzing around the creek. I might be noticing Darning Needles too, but the needles have eyes that do not touch and two pairs of wings of equal size. Just because I read the two differences on Wikipedia doesn't mean I can apply them in the field, identifying Dragonflies and Darning Needles.
I remember taking an exquisite picture of a bottle blue dragonfly at Blandford Nature Center, while visiting the creek running along the bottom of a ravine. I see pictures of Emperor dragonflies that look lke it. The picture must be on my HD Touch, which I can't find. I am glad I have Google Plus loading up pictures in the background. Because of Google Plus, I have finally hit 2 Gigabytes of data usage on my Google Nexus. Now If I could make more telephone calls. I never use up my minutes.
I hear of game played by children in Japan. A small pebble is tied to a long hair, and the long hair is thrown into the air. A dragonfly often mistakes the hair for prey, and doesn't let go when the pebble pulls hair and fly to the ground. I rather want to show that to a child, and I cannot believe it would actually work.
In Sweden, myth tells how a human soul can be weighed with dragonflies. Surely, one thinks of the movie 21 Grams, the weight of the departing soul that is lost when a person passes away.
Photography Credits
Deutsch: Dieses Bild zeigt eine etwa vier Zentimeter lange männliche Gefleckte Heidelibelle (Sympetrum flaveolum) von der Seite. Danke an Wofl für die Bestimmung.
English: This image shows an about 1.6 inch (4 cm) large Yellow-winged Darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) from the side.
Français : Un Sympétrum jaune d'or (Sympetrum flaveolum) de 4 cm d'envergure vu de côté.
Photographer: André Karwath aka Aka
Description Cesky: Šídlo královské v Puerto de la Cruz
Deutsch: Männliche Große Königslibelle (Anax imperator) in Puerto de la Cruz, Teneriffa, Spanien.
English: Male Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator) in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain.
Français : Un Anax empereur (Anax imperator) mâle, photographié à Puerto de la Cruz, sur l'île de Tenerife, en Espagne.
Date 25 March 2011(2011-03-25)
Source Own work
Author Quartl
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quartl
Deutsch: Männliche Große Königslibelle (Anax imperator) in Puerto de la Cruz, Teneriffa, Spanien.
English: Male Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator) in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain.
Français : Un Anax empereur (Anax imperator) mâle, photographié à Puerto de la Cruz, sur l'île de Tenerife, en Espagne.
Date 25 March 2011(2011-03-25)
Source Own work
Author Quartl
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quartl
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