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I WAS sat by my tiny tin-bath garden pond feeding my fish. A common frog was hiding, but not well, among the pond plants when a spectacular visitor arrived.
I’ve written before about how even a tiny pond attracts wildlife of all sorts into your garden. This new visitor was an electric blue dragonfly.
What an amazing and beautiful animal. Dragonflies are insects in the suborder Anisoptera. The scientific name means “unequal-winged” and it was clear in my new visitor how it got that name.
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