Aeshna cyanea

Posted 20 October 2014 by

Photograph by Marilyn Susek. Photography contest, Honorable Mention.
Aeshna cyanea -- southern hawker.
Beginning this week, we will run photographs every other Monday, so no picture next week; we no longer have enough honorable mentions and other miscellaneous photographs to continue posting a photograph every week. But polish your lenses (very carefully) and keep an eye out for the contest in the summer.

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https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkfz_ydidIaI_m6NKfKsDtTO1rKHmi8B-c · 21 October 2014

I looked this up in Google to see if was native to England and found in on the British Dragonfly Society site:

http://www.british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/southern-hawker

(In my ignorance I had not even known there was such a Society (although, perhaps, I ought to have guessed!)

anagrammatt2 · 21 October 2014

Fascinating flying machine!

It is autonomous and smarter than a 747 on autopilot!

It reproduces and has a multi-eye vision!

These things are submarines until they come to surface and fly away!

Mind you I am not of any Religion, rather a PURE LOGIC philosopher and Scientist! But I still do not know how this darn thing does not need to learn much to fly with 4 wings! And not exactly a bi-plane!

Cheers!

TomS · 22 October 2014

anagrammatt2 said: Fascinating flying machine! It is autonomous and smarter than a 747 on autopilot! It reproduces and has a multi-eye vision! These things are submarines until they come to surface and fly away! Mind you I am not of any Religion, rather a PURE LOGIC philosopher and Scientist! But I still do not know how this darn thing does not need to learn much to fly with 4 wings! And not exactly a bi-plane! Cheers!
Yet just think of how electrons can figure out the partial differential equations of quantum electrodynamics!