An ideal day to get Dragonflies.

When the strong wind abates, the Dragonflies emerge.

It doesn't matter how good you are, or how professional you are in photography, as when you see something beautiful, just try to get a photo and post it.
Someone on hive will like it just as much as you do and then you have made their day.
If you focus on income alone and hunt the big earners via reblogs and votes, then you have lost before you started.
Rather find the authors that have similar likes to your own and authors that post interesting topics and then engage with them.

Look at this post today, I know that not many like dragonflies, but I like them and there are others like me that also like them. So, I simply post what I like.

Here is a second shot of he Red-veined dragonfly in the first photo.

But then there was also another dragonfly that visited the same spot as the red dragonfly.

This is a Cape Skimmer (Julia capicola)

I was lucky to get this blue dragonfly sitting on the leaf of a plant.

It is a female Cape Skimmer and I found her in a different area.

Now look at this little beauty sitting below the Red-veined Dropwing in the first picture.

She is a female Red-veined Dropwing (Trithemis arteriosa)

Here below are two photos of the Red-veined Dropwing male in different poses.

This one looks like a Two-striped Skimmer (Orthetrum caffrum)

Finally an eye test!

Tell me if you can see the dragonfly?

It is so wonderful to walk around in the search for dragonflies in nature. The sound of nature is so soothing to the soul. No traffic noise, no people and one becomes part of nature. A place of peace and wonder where one can release all of the worldly stresses and just be.

Oh! I forget. Here was the dragonfly that I posted in the eye-test above. It was sitting lower down in the right hand side bottom of the picture.

It is said that dragonflies live most of their lives under water as nymphs. Not only as ordinary nymphs because they are ferocious feeders, who kill and eat everything under water. They have ferocious teeth and mandible jaws which can rip a prey totally apart. I have posted one before that was busy eating an insect, and the sideways shearing motion of its jaw is a wonder to watch.
After the nymph stage and transformation into the full adult stage, the dragonflies only live for a very short time.
Time enough to impregnate the females so that they can lay eggs and then the males die off.

Dragonflies and their relatives are similar in structure to an ancient group, meganisoptera, from the 325 Mya Upper Carboniferous of Europe, a group that included the largest insect that ever lived, Meganeuropsis permiana from the Early Permian, with a wingspan around 750 mm (30 in). Known informally as "griffinflies", their fossil record ends with the Permian–Triassic extinction event (about 247 Mya).

You can read more about dragonfly lifestyles Here

And That's All Friends!

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera

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