What's my species?

"The Mystical Center"

18 x 24 x 1 1/2 Oil on Canvas

$400

 

 

So here we have a little Dragonfly that is perched on a pond leaf.  Or is it something else? Do you know there are actually Dragonflies and Damselflies and they are 2 different creatures in many ways.  Want to know how to tell the difference?  Of course you do!  Dragonflies normally perch with their winds spanned out and Damselflies hold their wings up above their back bodies together, so if you looked at them sideways you might think they had just one wing.  There are other differences of course but I need to get back to the lesson...
 

So after the Dragonfly emerges for the last time as a water creature and completes it's metamorphosis,  it is ready to fly.  It is known as a juvenile. Imagine that and they haven't even done anything!  Well what they are really saying is that the dragonflies are not sexually mature......So the females take off into the wilderness and start foraging for food and basically have a grand ol time!  The males tend to stay near the water areas staking out territories, because you know....eventually the female will come back to the water to mate....... more on that in the next post.....