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Dragonflies : Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land / Pieter van Dokkum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dokkum, Pieter van, 1972- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dragonflies--United States.
- Dragonflies.
- Dragonflies--United States--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A gorgeous tribute to the magic and mystique of dragonflies, with intimate photographs of their entire life cycle Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing the stages of this striking insect's life cycle in unprecedented close-up photographs. He documents scenes of dragonfly activity seldom witnessed and rarely photographed. The book begins on a moonlit summer night, when an alien-looking larva crawls out of the water and transforms into a fully formed dragonfly. In the following chapters we witness dew-covered dragonflies sparkling in the morning sun, then a pair of mating dragonflies moving through the air in a twelve-legged, eight-winged dance. In the final chapter, one generation dies as the next prepares to leave the water and begin its own winged journey. Each stage is documented through van Dokkum's inquisitive lens and accompanied by information on various species of dragonflies and damselflies, their metamorphosis, and their ecological importance as insect predators.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface. The Secret Pond
- One. Beginnings
- Two. An Excellent Design
- Three. Dew-clad Dragons
- Four. Masters of Flight
- Five. Portraits
- Six. Hunters
- Seven. The Next Generation
- Eight. Endings, New Beginnings
- Afterword
- Suggested Readings
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-21346-8
- OCLC:
- 905919676
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