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Article: Dragonflies, damselflies and summer.
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- Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2005
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Byline: Kathy Van Mullekom
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ It's a summer filled with dragonflies darting everywhere you look.
They skim across the surface of your birdbath or pond, swoop down to dine on other insects and act like they want to follow you in the front door.
You instinctively know them when you see them, their long, narrow abdomens, richly veined wings and big bug-like eyes.
They and butterflies rival each other when it comes to jewel-like colors _ oranges, reds, yellows and blues.
"Dragonflies have many fan clubs, so few of them have earned spots on lists of endangered species," says David Liebman, a biologist and nature ...