Dragonflies: Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land

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Название: Dragonflies: Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land

Издатель: Yale University Press

Автор: Pieter van Dokkum

Год: March 31, 2015

Страниц: 176

Формат: pdf (оригинал)

Язык: English

Размер: 14 Mb

ISBN: 978-0300197082

Качество: хорошее

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Dragonflies: Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land

Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the mirknig.com dragonfly’s secrets, capturing the stages of this striking insect’s life cycle in unprecedented close-up photographs.

He documents scenes of dragonfly activity seldom witnessed and rarely photographed.

The book begins on a moonlit summer night, when an alien-looking

larva crawls out of the water and transforms into a fully formed dragonfly. In the following chapters we witness dew-covered mirknig.com dragonflies sparkling in the morning sun, then a pair of mating dragonflies moving through the air in a twelve-legged, eight-winged dance. In the final chapter, one generation dies as the next prepares to leave the water and begin its own winged journey.

Each stage is mirknig.com documented through van Dokkum’s inquisitive lens and accompanied by information on various species of dragonflies and damselflies, their metamorphosis, and their ecological importance as insect predators.