Eggs - _TNY_8901
This beauty in the process of laying eggs in the water at the Nedre Dammen pond in Tyresta National Park is a female brown hawker (Aeshna grandis).
This species is a quite common species here, but this is the first shot I have gotten of one. Like all hawkers, they do everything on the wing and rarely stop and perch anywhere.
I was actually flat on my stomach trying to get a good shot of a water strider with parasites when she swooped in and landed on the tree branch in the water in front of me. I managed to take two shots before she was off again.
The larvae will then spend two, three or four seasons underwater before emerging to spend a summer as adults hoping to repeat the process.
Eggs - _TNY_8901
This beauty in the process of laying eggs in the water at the Nedre Dammen pond in Tyresta National Park is a female brown hawker (Aeshna grandis).
This species is a quite common species here, but this is the first shot I have gotten of one. Like all hawkers, they do everything on the wing and rarely stop and perch anywhere.
I was actually flat on my stomach trying to get a good shot of a water strider with parasites when she swooped in and landed on the tree branch in the water in front of me. I managed to take two shots before she was off again.
The larvae will then spend two, three or four seasons underwater before emerging to spend a summer as adults hoping to repeat the process.