{"id":1224,"date":"2008-10-06T00:10:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T23:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1224"},"modified":"2013-11-19T18:40:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:40:57","slug":"nymphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/nymphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nymphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A day of continual rain resulted in very few photographic opportunities, but once again things improved after dark. I wasn't treated to a hedgehog or fox this time, and the frogs were conspicuous by their absence. In fact I thought I wasn't going to see anything worth photographing. That is until I noticed some small creatures at one end of the garden pond. There was a group of them, and they weren't young newts. Close inspection revealed a small colony of damselfly nymphs.<\/p>\n

They take about a year to mature into adults, which would take us to mid-May 2009 if they are result of the mating activity<\/a> I saw earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Damselfly nymph<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Nymphs and pond snails<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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There are a few more shots in the Damselfly Nymphs<\/a> album.<\/p>\n

Camera note: all shots taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens and Canon 430EX flash unit.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[1170,470],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nymph","tag-damselfly","tag-nymphs","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t