Last week's nature buzz was hummingbirds. This week Lorika captures an extraordinarily beautiful dragonfly. Apparently it's the Common Green Darner, but calling this creature "common" is a putdown in my book. It's quite obviously from the future and/or outer space.
Here's another cool picture. Dragonfly in the Sky is a book about the Green Darner's life cycle, which tragically ends in death.
Posted by Minnesota Stories on August 23, 2005 03:17 AM
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Yes, we've got nature videos while there's big stuff going down elsewhere in the state. But, you know, we don't have a team of video reporters to dispatch to the NWA picket line. Or do we? If anybody's going down there, please take a video camera with you and share...
Chuck,
You were part of the DragonFlyTV team back in the early 2000s, right ? A great national public television show originationg out of Lowertown,St.Paul.
Posted by: Joe at August 23, 2005 11:04 AM
That was little ol' me filming, and holding the dragonfly. It was so amazing. I've always loved dragonflies and never held one before.
Also, I don't think they would bite. Their prey are insects,(mainly monsquitos -yaay!) and you'd be an awefully big insect to bite.
