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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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They live under water as grubs for two years, yet when they mature into grown may flies, they can only survive for half an hour... the male flies out number the female flies 10 to 1, and all they do for their whole lives is fight amongst each other to try to have sex with a limited amount of females.
Reminded me of some of the single men on Fab...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was taking pics of dragon flies this morn..such lovely beasts..
one of my best pics from a cpl years ago was two ,mayflies mating on a lilly, theyd made almost a heart shape |
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By *ola.Woman
over a year ago
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This reminds me of the insect cicada. They had it harder buried for 16 years underground and only had 48 hours to find a mate. Valentines 2014 Stephen Fry narrated a short animated clip called Ciacada Princess. Beautifully written.  |
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"I was taking pics of dragon flies this morn..such lovely beasts..
one of my best pics from a cpl years ago was two ,mayflies mating on a lilly, theyd made almost a heart shape"
Yes I was looking up the Life history of the damselflie nymph and the dragonflie today, the dragonflies is Easier compared to the damselflies when growing to adult, we Have a few common hawker dragonflies around at the moment in the garden. |
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"This reminds me of the insect cicada. They had it harder buried for 16 years underground and only had 48 hours to find a mate. Valentines 2014 Stephen Fry narrated a short animated clip called Ciacada Princess. Beautifully written. "
That was lucky on such an appropriate day then!!  |
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