This one bellow has to be the smallest of the dragonflies I have seen to date.
showing how small the blue tailed damsels are
Sunday, September 5, 2010
September dragons and damsels
10 different dragons Today
This one bellow has to be the smallest of the dragonflies I have seen to date.
showing how small the blue tailed damsels are
This one bellow has to be the smallest of the dragonflies I have seen to date.
showing how small the blue tailed damsels are
Friday, September 3, 2010
chest deep in the polluted nile river
Bubbles in the Nile
This is the prompt for an underwater shot of the dragonfly it kept coming back to land on this piece of reed , but its sods law that when I got close enough it went to another landing place,
no decent shots of the red tailed skimmer dragonfly,
the blue damsels where much more obliging got to within 6" to take the next shots while I was up to my chest in the Nile river
Laying its eggs just below water line
Sunday, August 29, 2010
damselflies
About half a dozen species of damsel flies occur in Egypt. Called "bluetails," the common species is Ischnura senegalensis, which is found abundantly all over Egypt including the Western Desert, but not in Sinai, The eyes are prominent and the colored tail is distinctive. Their legs catch insect prey in flight.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
11/ 12 . August. 2010 dragons and damsels
on the base of this page I have an,Ant lion (family Myrmeleontidae)
it would be nice to be able to put a name to some if not all the 42 species I have on this blog.
Please Click on the photos to enlarge.
red tails the most common of the dragons,
This bright red dragonfly is widespread all over Egypt around small lakes and ponds. They like perching on and returning to particular twigs while hunting for their prey. Like all members of the Dragonfly family, they are predacious. The nymphs molt about twelve times and climb out of the water to undergo the last molt into the adult stage.
meal time
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Ant lion (family Myrmeleontidae)
Adults are common desert residents, coming to lights at night. Species vary enormously in size, and there are some very large ones. The larvae of some species are well known because they dig circular pits with sloping sides in the sand to trap ants, which they knock down to their huge jaws by flicking sand at them.
it would be nice to be able to put a name to some if not all the 42 species I have on this blog.
Please Click on the photos to enlarge.
red tails the most common of the dragons,
This bright red dragonfly is widespread all over Egypt around small lakes and ponds. They like perching on and returning to particular twigs while hunting for their prey. Like all members of the Dragonfly family, they are predacious. The nymphs molt about twelve times and climb out of the water to undergo the last molt into the adult stage.
meal time
.
Ant lion (family Myrmeleontidae)
Adults are common desert residents, coming to lights at night. Species vary enormously in size, and there are some very large ones. The larvae of some species are well known because they dig circular pits with sloping sides in the sand to trap ants, which they knock down to their huge jaws by flicking sand at them.
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