The beautiful moment when dragonflies appear

Dragonfly: a large insect with developed wings and long and narrow front and rear wings; The head can rotate flexibly, the antenna is short, the compound eye is developed, and there are three monocles. The chewing mouthparts are powerful.

There are three most common dragonflies, namely Biweiting, Huangting and damselfly. These three kinds of dragonflies basically represent all families of dragonflies, that is, large, medium and small dragonflies.

The larva of dragonfly is called "Chai", which looks like a spider and has a big belly. It lives in the water, preys on the extremely developed surface cover, and mainly feeds on mayfly larvae, small fish, tadpoles and dragonflies. Generally, it takes more than two years to molt 1 1 time. If it takes a long time, it will have to endure seven or eight years to molt into an adult.

Dragonfly larvae will climb out of the water several hours before emergence and attach themselves to plants, stones, fences, piers and other objects to emerge. Most dragonflies emerge at night, and a few emerge in the morning.

On a summer morning a few years ago, I went to the summer resort with some friends from the photography class to collect wind. The rising sun shines obliquely on the aquatic plants by the lake, and crystal dew is hung on the green aquatic plants. The larvae of several dragonflies are firmly attached to the leaves of aquatic plants. It turns out that the peak season of dragonfly emergence has arrived.

This is the first time that my movie friends and I saw dragonflies appear. I am very excited to have a rare opportunity. We waited while filming, and more than three hours passed before we finished filming the whole process of dragonfly emergence.

Dragonfly larva-hydra, quietly attached to the leaves of aquatic plants.

On the back of hydra, a crack was opened, revealing the dragonfly's compound eye first.

After waiting for a while, the dragonfly's head came out.

Then there was a long wait, and the dragonfly's body slowly came out bit by bit.

Dragonfly's whole body is upside down, only its tail is still in it.

Dragonfly's legs spread out quickly.

Then, its body suddenly turned up and its four legs hugged the water grass.

Then, its tail finally fell off, and the whole body of the dragonfly left its previous body.

Dragonflies grow very fast.

The folded wings on the dragonfly's back also spread rapidly.

The light lines on the wings gradually deepen.

The wings are fully spread out and the patterns of the body are becoming more and more beautiful.

Dragonfly's wings stuck together and didn't unfold for a long time. It was spread with the help of a movie friend of ours. )

Finally, it became a beautiful dragonfly and flew away. At this point, the dragonfly eclosion is complete.

This is another red dragonfly that just appeared. )

Dragonflies have many colors, such as red, black and flowers. Their life span is very short, about 1 ~ 8 months.

This is the body left by the dragonfly after it emerged.