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Category: My Garden Birds | Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:49 am

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When the dragonflies are ready to become adults like butterflies from a chrysalis, they climb up a reed or grass out of the water and then do their thing. I managed to take a photo of a dragonfly emerging. They shed their skins many times before this part of their lives. Rather neat I thought.


Emerging dragonfly, changing to dragonfly as we know them. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )






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Frank wrote on Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:54 am:

I never knew this about dragonflies. Thanks for the lesson and great capture.

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eileen wrote on Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:02 am:

I've found the empty chrysalis's of both damsel and dragonflies on my pond plants. However, I've never managed to get a shot of one emerging - great shot!!

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gfreiherr wrote on Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:48 am:

Thanks for another amazing photo.

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aythya-camellia wrote on Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:07 pm:

I've found old exoskeletons/skins (I don't know what they're called in Odonates) several times, but never one emerging. Excellent shot!

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Kildale wrote on Tue Aug 03, 2010 4:12 pm:

Thank you all for following my efforts at writing a blog. I hate that word.

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debbieteale wrote on Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:19 am:

All I can say is WOW! Great shot.

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