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Bugman,
Here’s a few pictures that I took over the summer. My location is on Loughborough Lake north of Kingston, Ontario. What is it? Also, here is the annual infestation of Boxelder Bugs that we get in only one window of the office building where I work. Thanks in advance.
Christa Johnston
Hi Christa,
What great photos you have sent showing Dragonfly metamorphosis. We don’t know the species, but all Dragonflies begin life as aquatic nymphs. When they are ready to molt into adults, they come ashore, split their skin and emerge as winged adults. The wings will expand and harden and the adult is then capable of flight.
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Good morning,
With that flattened body of the larva, the oddly small head compared with the side of the thorax as well as the separeted eyes makes it a Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus).
Renaud, Switzerland
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