A dragonfly

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A dragonfly charging her batteries!

 

Her genus and species are not recognizable from the picture

due to the angle of shooting. Sorry.

 

By the way, did you know...

• that more than 3,000 different species live on every continent of the world except Antarctica?
• that dragonflies are the fastest flying insects, reaching a speed of 50–60 kph? 
• that they can fly forward, backwards, sideways, they can hover or change direction very quickly? 
• that their strikingly big eye actually consists of up to 5000 tiny cooperating eyes that allow her to see in front, below, and behind, all at the same time? 
• that they have been around for 300 million years? 
• that they eat other bugs, such as mosquitoes, midges, and spiders and they do not harm people? 

 

Photographed on Mt. Hymittos

 

Disclaimer.

If you’ve thought for a moment that I might be an expert on dragonflies,

please think again. I’m not!

I only came across this information while I was browsing the booklet:

 “Ask a bug” published by DK.