Blue Dasher Teneral

Blue Dasher Teneral

I photographed this sequence of a dragonfly and another one of a damselfly one morning.  It took over an hour to happen.

Remember that the insect is enlarging and the exuvia is probably shrinking due to drying.  The relationship of size make it difficult to believe that the insect came out of the exuvia.  Remember also that I was there and saw the process beginning with the large image at the top.

This insect was located about even with my camera and I was able to capture the eyes and the tail with DOF.  I can't get much lower than this level.

 

It was windy that day and the it blew the insect around to the leeward side of the stem.  It gave me an opportunity to photograph more views.

Blue Dasher Teneral

If you have looked at dragonflies much you will probably note that dragonflies don't hold their wings in this position.  That is because this teneral dragonfly still has development ahead in time.  We will look at more tomorrow.

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