Eats, flies and sleeps

by Darren

This is a male azure damselfly, just sitting on a piece of grass waiting for some prey to come along.  Often mistaken for dragonflies the damselfly is smaller and a weaker flier than their cousin the dragonfly.

He’ll stay here until he sees a small flying insect passing by – then he’ll fly rapidly to catch and eat it.  Then he’ll return to his piece of grass and bide his time until another tasty morsel passes by.

Not a bad life, eh?

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Posted on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 at 8:51 pm. Filed under: Other Tags: azure damselfles, azure damselfly, blue, damselflies, damselfly, grass, insects RSS 2.0 feed.

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