Monthly Archives: August 2010

Now isn’t that just the dragonfly’s vest buttons

I missed “my” big flame skimmer dragonflies for a few days.  Had that incarnation of their lifecycle ended? Had a bird eaten them? One way or another, I thought they’d met their demise; however, yesterday, I saw one of them again, in the company of the little one.  The small flame skimmer has “vest buttons” [...]

Damselfly delight

Like a kitty bringing home a lizard to its favored “owner” (disclaimer: no one really owns a cat) a tiny, predatory damselfly landed on my hand yesterday with a small flying creature in its mouth.  I raised my hand slowly to take a myopic look at the miniature loveliness only to see the struggling beastie [...]