Dragon in Red. Large Red Damselfly, Pyrrhosoma nymphula, on Rhododendron obtusum, Hiryū Azalea, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Here in the brilliantly Sunny Amsterdam Botanical Garden is a Large Red Damselfly. She's just out of her nymph stage (thorax and eyes are still green; you can just see the red segments that give her the specific name 'Fire Body').
Our Dragon in Red is resting - drying out - on a flower of Rhododendron obtusum, an Azalea called 'Hiryū' (Flying Dragon) in Japan, whence hail many of these flamboyant plants.
Dragon in Red. Large Red Damselfly, Pyrrhosoma nymphula, on Rhododendron obtusum, Hiryū Azalea, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Here in the brilliantly Sunny Amsterdam Botanical Garden is a Large Red Damselfly. She's just out of her nymph stage (thorax and eyes are still green; you can just see the red segments that give her the specific name 'Fire Body').
Our Dragon in Red is resting - drying out - on a flower of Rhododendron obtusum, an Azalea called 'Hiryū' (Flying Dragon) in Japan, whence hail many of these flamboyant plants.