Lazing by the pool today watching the dragon flies flitting around sparked my inner geek, I jumped up from my prime sunbathing spot and hopped onto the internet with the need to find out what these strange red dragon flies were called and what made them special.
The internet isn't terribly helpful unless you have a specific search term, I hopefully tried 'Fauna Crete' thinking there would be some sort of guide, you know like the Insects of Britain books, or that lovely Butterfly identification book my Dad has, but no. It focused on Kri Kri's and scorpions (not seen a scorpion yet thank goodness!) after many random searches I discovered that I had been looking at the male Red-veined darter. According to Google we have these little beauties in England, not that I've ever seen one, I always thought dragon flies were just a pretty blue colour.
With the geek in me satisfied I feel it is now possible to carry on sunbathing ... or at least until another wonderful creepy crawly comes my way.
My new favourite insect
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