There was major flooding in Toronto yesterday evening. The subways were shut down and even the airport was affected. There were power outages all over the city. Fortunately we were fine, but the next block over had a four hour power outage. Everything happened so suddenly, a deluge of rain between 4 and 5 pm in some areas.
To continue with my regular post, we spent the Canada Day long weekend with L's boyfriend's family at their cottage up north. They had a lot of dragonflies hatching at this time of year. Here are a few photos of one of them emerging as an adult, leaving its larval skin behind. It's fascinating, I didn't know they did that. They are predators that eat mosquitoes, which is a good thing. They take a couple of hours to moult. Here's a video describing the dragonfly life cycle if you are curious.
To continue with my regular post, we spent the Canada Day long weekend with L's boyfriend's family at their cottage up north. They had a lot of dragonflies hatching at this time of year. Here are a few photos of one of them emerging as an adult, leaving its larval skin behind. It's fascinating, I didn't know they did that. They are predators that eat mosquitoes, which is a good thing. They take a couple of hours to moult. Here's a video describing the dragonfly life cycle if you are curious.
9 comments:
Sorry to hear about the flooding! Lovely photos, dragonflies are very fascinating! Valerie
I am glad you and your house were not affected by the flooding. Sounds like you enjoyed the weekend with your daughter. We have dragonflies in Hawaii, also.
Very perceptive of you to notice the dragonfly shedding. Glad you had your camera handy!
cool dragonfly
I never realized that dragonflys eat mosquitoes! How cool. And handy lol.
Kathy to be honest, the cottagers pointed this out to me and my camera wasn't far away!
Here in Hamilton we couldn't believe the rain we saw in Toronto! We think that if that happened here,the escarpment would have slid into the lower city. I have never seen dragonflies emerging before...
Glad you are okay. That's one big dragon fly or is it two? ;-)
Wow! I've never seen anything like that either. I never even thought of them emerging from a shell.
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