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jjhvzz6: Golden Ringed Dragonfly. egg laying.
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jjhvzz6: This type of dragonfly is probably the largest UK species
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jjhvzz6: What a shame they only live in this form for two or three months.
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jjhvzz6: Life Cycle, Egg
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jjhvzz6: Eggs hatch into nymphs.
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jjhvzz6: Started to get worried that she had a drink problem.
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jjhvzz6: Maybe she just likes the colors.
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jjhvzz6: Don't know where the spider web filament came from.
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jjhvzz6: Back to life cycle, nymphs spend up to four years terrorising the pond life.
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jjhvzz6: Then late spring and temperature increase will trigger a change.
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jjhvzz6: nymph will climb a stalk and the metamorphosis will begin
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jjhvzz6: Result is a fully grown and developed dragonfly.
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jjhvzz6: Just to last a few weeks.
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jjhvzz6: But in that few weeks a thing of beauty.