Just the Fuselage

After nearly a week of record breaking temperatures, four of the last seven days setting new daily high temperatures, a fair number of insects are making an appearance even though it is still February. Over the last two days, I've observed several beetles, a moth, an ant, three species of fly, a planthopper, and a damsel bug. Last year a similar warm up the second week of March brought out some of these same insects. This year they are two weeks ahead of that. With one to two feet of snow predicted over the next two days, this parade of spring weather and spring creatures will pause for a while.

Looking around the front yard and the gardens, I came across the remains of a dragonfly, a darner of some kind. Lodged among the snipped stems of last year's Coneflowers, the dragonfly resembled the wreckage of a miniscule plane, just the fuselage and a few twisted remnants of wing.

Posted on February 23, 2017 04:25 AM by scottking