{"id":1978,"date":"2011-07-03T23:07:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T22:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1978"},"modified":"2013-11-09T12:34:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T12:34:26","slug":"the-birth-of-a-dragonfly-photo-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-birth-of-a-dragonfly-photo-special\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of a Dragonfly (photo special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Our garden pond has been hiding secrets for the past year; secrets in the form of larvae of the common darter dragonfly. The larvae develop for about a year before emerging, lurking deep in the murkiness of the pond. For the past couple of days I&#39;ve noticed them crawling to the fringes of the pond, and this morning two more were making the journey. To help them I placed a couple of sticks at the edge of the pond. They took the hint. The photos that follow show some highlights from a much longer sequence, which also includes video (yet to be edited). The sequence shown lasted about 40 minutes. It was another hour or so before it took its first flight.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/common_darter_dragonfly_0307111363.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Ascending the stick<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/common_darter_dragonfly_0307111374.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Breaking out<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/common_darter_dragonfly_0307111377.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/common_darter_dragonfly_0307111400.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/common_darter_dragonfly_0307111453.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The pale &#39;arm&#39; you can see is the tightly packed wings<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watching them I wondered how they would get themselves the right way up. This clip shows how. It&#39;s an extract from the much longer sequence I filmed, but that will take me time to edit. It shows the second of the two dragonflies I was watching.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reactr-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dragonfly emerging.wmv\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVll71hzT4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Back to the main subject, now the right way up. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/common_darter_dragonfly_0307111510.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The wings have extended, but are still milky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/common_darter_dragonfly_0307111569.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">15 minutes later<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This last shot is one of the other emerging darters (it was resting before its first flight). Just my way of signing off! I&#39;ll try to sort the full video out over the next week (it will take a while, a lot to edit).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/common_darter_dragonfly_0307111185.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots and video clip taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/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":[77],"tags":[747,1148,749],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragonfly","tag-common-darter","tag-dragonfly","tag-emerging","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}