My macro hobby started during the pandemic, photographing dragonflies & damselflies in my NL garden.
We don't have many in our DE garden as we're far from standing water 🤷♂️
But I had a nice 5 mins by a pond in Windsor Great Park yesterday, which included seeing this common darter (Sympetrum striolatum; 🇩🇪 Große Heidelibelle).
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@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social
So beautiful! When I was a kid I collected insects. But not dragonflies. Their colors depend on living scales, so in death they all turn, like, black.