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Green Darner Dragonflies
Anax junius
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Last year's crop of Green Darner dragonflies matures in the summer. After spending the previous year as a nymph crawling along the muddy bottoms of ponds, lakes and streams, dodging hungry predators and marauding among tadpoles and other small tasty morsels in their watery world they at last feel the urge to crawl up any convenient plant stem and leave the waters of their birth forever. Once above water they wait until their skin begins to split along their backs. Crawling out of their old skin their new wings unfold, expand and harden, the abdomen enlarges and a new dragonfly flies away sparkling in the sun.
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