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Shed Dragonfly Skin

Posted by July 9th, 2005 at 12:00 am

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Dragonflies and Damselflies

prehistoric looking critter
Here is a real ugly critter. It resemble a grasshopper, but has ridges down his back and is almost black. He was sitting on the side of on of the support beams of the dock of our lake. Can you identify him for me? I looked in all of my reference books under grasshoppers and crickets and was unable to find him. If you need some more pictures, I can send them to you. The white strings on his back look like atrophied wings to me, but I might be mistaken. I was flat on the dock trying to aim the camera below me for these shots. Thanks for your help.
Margrit

Hi Margrit,
A Naiad crawled out of the lake, split its skin and flew away as an adult Dragonfly.

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