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Water to Air – Baby Dragonflies

Final instar nymph of an aeshnid dragonfly (College Station, TX). Two years running our first planned field outing for the spring has coincided with one of Texas’s rare dips into below freezing...

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Sprawlers and Climbers – Lifestyles of dragonfly nymphs

An aeshnid dragonfly nymph preys on a libellulid dragonfly nymph. Last week I posted pictures of some dragonfly nymphs, and Jim Johnson of Northwest Dragonflier was kind enough to give me some ID tips...

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Frog Tongues, Vader Masks, and Dragonfly Nymphs

The extended spoon-shaped labium of a libellulid dragonfly nymph. One of my favorite examples of weird insect anatomy are the strange mouthparts of the aquatic nymphs of dragonflies and damselflies.  A...

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