Great photo. Ugly bug.

A dragonfly? Lovely close-up

A big eyed dragonfly sipping at a lovely flower. Great shot!

Great shot !! Deidre --- dragonflies eat mosquitoes. In a Japanese tradition, they are considered to be sentimental messengers.

A super picture! And yes Deidre, dragonflys are good friends!

Little messenger, little feeling?

Wonderful dragonfly. Super photo!

Doing it's bit for pollinisation? Nice close up.

Thanks Muriel, I did not know that dragonflies ate mosquitoes - we generally have plenty of them flying around our pool during the day, but haven't seen any at dusk or night when the mossies are out.

Beautiful pic!

What a great shot, those little fellas are fast and don't stay still for long, well done to the photographer

Thank you all...glad you like it. I think we can all agree; these are better to look at than spiders. I am not surprised you did not see it in Flickr. I think it, and about four more, are on page 20 by now! lol. Thanks Gath for posting it.

Great shot Nal!!!

Well-captured Nal, they are fast little b''''ers, aren't they! I'd rather look at its photo than be near the real thing - they give me the creeps! :)

Very good shot Nal! Didn't have to read the comments to recognize your work.

Great dragonfly better than cats & dogs. Clicking on image properties says 350 x350px & 20,88Kb (21382bytes). Does this mean it gets shrunk on site? Ive been trying to get my to the size specified & have had trouble doing so! (The missing apostrophes are not my fault. something wont let me type them!)

9th Mar'07 (Apostrophe thief must be asleep today!)

Ps it's a lovely picture! 9th Mar'07

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10/29/07

Stunning picture!
4/30/08

Apart from the fact that they are beautiful as adults and eat adult mosquitoes, their nymphs eat mosquito larvae as well.