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When Timing meets Mother Earth: Watch a dragonfly emerge from a nymph

In the Ein Prat Reserve, which experienced a severe fire last week, Shaked Bohbot, an inspector from the Nature and Parks Authority, noticed the birth of a dragonfly, which emerged from the cocoon and went into a new life.

"It was a spectacular sight," he says.

Watch the miracle of creation he documented

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Ziv Reinstein

Thursday, 27 May 2021, 15:24 Updated: 15:44

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Shafririt emerges from a nymph (Photo: Shaked Bohbot, Nature and Parks Authority)

When timing meets Mother Earth:

Not every day you get a healthy observation of a natural creature, but Shaked Bohbot, inspector of the Nature and Parks Authority, got to watch and document the emergence of a dragonfly from a nymph in the Ein Prat Reserve in the Judean Desert, which lasted about 45 minutes. .

"It was a spectacular spectacle," says Shaked.

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The dragonfly removes the last prey and stretches its wings (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Shaked Bohbot)

The eyes are separated from each other

The Sapirim series invites us in Israel to have two sub-series of

dragonflies and dragonflies

.

On hikes along streams and other waterways they can be easily distinguished.

The rear wing dragonflies are wider than the front and at rest they are held perpendicular to the body axis and their eyes are attached.

The dragonflies, on the other hand, hold their wings of equal size above the body axis and their eyes separate from each other.

like in the picture.

The aspirants lay their eggs in water bodies and their larvae undergo several incarnations in the water, where they prey on other creatures.

Towards the end of the last incarnation the larvae (nymphs) ascend along a leaf protruding from the water, or along walls of ponds.

They remove the last excrement and stretch the wings by flowing the body fluids into the delicate arteries that look like a reinforcement mesh of the wing.

The abdomen (and not the tail ... only the vertebrates have and here we are dealing with invertebrates), also lengthens.

The aspirants lay their eggs in water bodies.

The dragonfly that emerged from the nymph (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Shaked Bohbot)

The dragonfly's courtship season began in spring and summer (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Shaked Bohbot)

The dragonflies and dragonflies prey on insects while flying

The courtship season began in spring and summer, dragonflies and flying dragonflies can be seen attached near water bodies.

The male attaches his abdomen to a female abdomen while holding the nape of the neck.

To a bystander, the show looks like a flying heart.

The female lays eggs into the water while flying, as she lowers the tip of her abdomen for a light touch of water.

Both species prey on other insects while flying.

Both are also an important source of high-protein food for various species of birds.

For casuals to streams and flowing waterways, the upcoming season is a spectacular sight of dragonflies and dragonflies with the light refracting through their transparent and delicate wings to the dance floor.

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