The birth of a Dragonfly.

This is a Friendly Hawker Dragonfly (Aesha miniscula) that has just changed from the water nymph stage, to the adult dragonfly. The water nymph climbed out of the water and shed its external skeleton, so that it can take on the life cycle change of flying around to catch its prey, instead of in the water.

Stage one at 10h00                                                       Stage two at 10h30

Stage 3 at 11h00                                                           Stage four at 11h15

Stage five at 13h00                                                Stage six at 14h00

Stage seven at 16h00

Friendly Hawker settled on a plant and ready to go hunting.