[Odonata-l] A most enjoyable dragonfly encounter

[June Tveekrem]

It's well worth visiting this web page I stumbled across:
http://www.solarexpert.com/photography/dragonfly_photography.html

The page is by a fisherman in California who has been tying his own 
trout flies for years, and decided to start tying some for artistic 
purposes, just to see how well he could create realistic-looking 
insects. Well, he made some very realistic ones that resemble horse 
flies (to my untrained eye). He took them outside, posed one on a small 
stick near a pond, and tried to take a close-up photo. He had trouble 
with the camera, and when he looked up the fly was gone. He couldn't 
find it on the ground nearby.

He posed another one more securely, and a Flame Skimmer (Libellula 
saturata) landed and tried to carry off the fly. He has good photos of 
the dragonfly trying get a meal.

Look at his page for yourself.

By the way, this caused him to notice dragonflies and start tying flies 
that look like realistic dragonflies.

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June Tveekrem
Columbia, Maryland, U.S.
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