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Monday, July 28, 2008

Unknown Insect

We saw this interesting creature of the insect variety on a recent Charlie walk. It was clinging to the underside of that branch over our heads. An over-sized dragonfly would be my description of it but I am not convinced that that's what it is. Has anyone else ever seen this type of insect or know what it is?

4 comments:

Kim from Hiraeth said...

From the set of its wings, it's definitely a dragonfly and not a damselfly. Don't know what species it is, though.

Kim from Hiraeth said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Aeshna_mixta.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Aeshna_juncea.jpg

take a look at these

Dorothy said...

I did look at those! I think maybe its the Aeshna_juncea dragonfly. If you click on the photo in my post to enlarge it, you can get a better look at the head and it looks more like this one to me.

Thanks for the research, Kim. Maybe I should have made this a contest and you could be the winner! Hmm...I'm thinking about an appropriate prize.

Kim from Hiraeth said...

No prize necessary! : D

I should've been a librarian, working at the research desk. I love trying to find stuff out!