Male southern hawker dragonfly

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Male southern hawker dragonfly

Southern hawker dragonfly. Close-up of a newly emerged southern hawker dragonfly (Aeshna cyanea) clinging to a dry leaf. Dragonflies show incomplete metamorphosis with no pupal stage in the life-cycle. The larva climbs out from the water splits open and the adult emerges. It then takes several hours for the adults body and wings to harden, and the brilliant colours of the mature insect to appear. Here the colours are not fully developed, the wings have not fully expanded and their veins still contain blood

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Blood Clinging Compound Eyes Dragon Fly Emerging Fast Hawker Insecta Insects Veins Wing Wings Young Adult Aeshna Cyanea Drying Out Southern Hawker Dragonfly Vein

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