Consider If You Would, The Humble Dragonfly.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:21 am
We’ve all seem them at one time or another, hovering above a pond like beautiful mini-helicopters. Someone is bound to cry out: “Oh look, a dragonfly! Isn’t it pretty?”
Dragonflies spend most of their short lives as nymphs under water. During this time which can last up to three years, they are very ugly predators, hunting down and devouring other insect larvae, tadpoles and even small fish.
Then one day a miracle occurs. In the heat of the day the underwater nymph climbs out the water, dries and its crumpled wings unfold transforming it into a beautiful dragonfly! As long as the sun is shining, it swoops, turns and zooms … sometimes like a small aeroplane then as a helicopter, but never ever walking.
Its lifespan allows it only enough time to mature and mate before the beautiful, glittering wings once again cease as the first cold of autumn kills it.
Is there perhaps a lesson to be learned from the dragonfly?
What do you think?
Dragonflies spend most of their short lives as nymphs under water. During this time which can last up to three years, they are very ugly predators, hunting down and devouring other insect larvae, tadpoles and even small fish.
Then one day a miracle occurs. In the heat of the day the underwater nymph climbs out the water, dries and its crumpled wings unfold transforming it into a beautiful dragonfly! As long as the sun is shining, it swoops, turns and zooms … sometimes like a small aeroplane then as a helicopter, but never ever walking.
Its lifespan allows it only enough time to mature and mate before the beautiful, glittering wings once again cease as the first cold of autumn kills it.
Is there perhaps a lesson to be learned from the dragonfly?
What do you think?