What Is This? An Extra from Yellow Submarine?

Living World

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

published online April 2, 2008

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

dragaonfly Image 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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