Emperor Dragonfly (f) in flight - looking for a place to lay her eggs

The dragonfly alights on floating pond debris or plants - anywhere she can dip her tail into the water and deposit her eggs. She will do this for quite some time at several different sites, and that fulfills all dragonfly parenting responsibilities. The adult dragonflies only live a matter of weeks, their eggs hatch into nymphs which will spend several years living under the water until the survivors finally emerge, undergo their final moult and fly off as adults, and the cycle begins again. Dragonflies (and damselflies) are amongst the most successful animals on earth having been around, substantially unchanged, for millions of years.

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