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04.02.2008

What Is This? An Extra from Yellow Submarine?

The "devil's darning needle" hunts by sight.


What is shown in the picture above the masthead on page 4 of the May 2008 issue?


dragaonflyImage courtesy of Martin Amm

It's a dragonfly, specifically a red-veined darter. Just before sunrise on a summer morning, German photographer Martin Amm snapped this shot of the groggy insect covered in glistening droplets of dew.

 



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