Exo-skeleton dragonfly nymph after metamorphosis

in nature •  8 years ago  (edited)

A dragonfly spends most of it's life as a nymph, which stays unnoticed by most.

The three stages of a dragonfly include, the egg, the nymph and the adult dragonfly.


The egg is layn attached to a waterplant just under the watersurface.


When the egg hatches the dragonfly will continue it's life as a nymph, which can take up to 4 years,


when in spring the nymph moves out of the water, it will metamorphosize into an adult dragonfly leaving it's former exo-skeleton clung to the plant it climbed up on.

And become this wondrous flying insect.

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