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In case it is of interest to those of you who contacted me about what
I had thought was a live creature clinging to one of my pond iris
leaves, the subsequently confirmed exuvia of the darner dragonfly
family, was still clinging to the leaf until yesterday (two full weeks
since I first noticed it) and still looking totally robust and lifelike
- which impression was intensified by the fact that it appeared to be
slowly moving up the iris leaf - until it dawned on me that the leaf
itself was growing taller!
However this morning, after very heavy rain overnight I found that the
leaf had bent over at water level with the result that the exuvia, still
'clinging' to the leaf was submerged in water. Rather to my surprise a
significant tug was needed to separate it from the leaf, when I was then
able to see clearly that it was indeed a full rounded transparent shell
with absolutely nothing inside it. Drying out on some paper towel it
remains as convincingly lifelike as before....
Most fascinating!
Eleanor Lindsay,
Seabright, St Margarets Bay
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">In case it is of interest
to those of you who contacted me about what I had thought was a
live creature clinging to one of my pond iris leaves, the
subsequently confirmed exuvia of the darner dragonfly family, was
still clinging to the leaf until yesterday (two full weeks since I
first noticed it) and still looking totally robust and lifelike -
which impression was intensified by the fact that it appeared to
be slowly moving up the iris leaf - until it dawned on me that the
leaf itself was growing taller!<br>
<br>
However this morning, after very heavy rain overnight I found that
the leaf had bent over at water level with the result that the
exuvia, still 'clinging' to the leaf was submerged in water.
Rather to my surprise a significant tug was needed to separate it
from the leaf, when I was then able to see clearly that it was
indeed a full rounded transparent shell with absolutely nothing
inside it. Drying out on some paper towel it remains as
convincingly lifelike as before....<br>
<br>
Most fascinating!<br>
<br>
Eleanor Lindsay,<br>
Seabright, St Margarets Bay </font><br>
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