Besides emerging Bluets we also found several emerging Four-spotted Chasers. We spent some hours with these newly “born” insects. During the process of emerging and the period directly afterwards, when the dragonfly gets his final shape, the dragonflies are very vulnerable. They can’t fly or move and are sitting ducks for all kinds of predators. Normally dragonflies only emerge with good weather. For good reason, as a lot of mistakes happen in bad weather. Due to the bad weather we found several individuals with deformed wings, as you can see in the end of the movie. Fortunately also many that did survive and that would fly away soon into their new habitat, the airspace!
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