Ode Predation

[Kenelm Philip]

	To supplement Mark Walker's observation of dragonfly predation
on butterflies: back in the '60s I was chasing a butterfly (don't recall
the species) in the Chena River floodplain near Fairbanks. I had run about
as far as I could, and was on the verge of catching it--when a large
dragonfly appeared out of nowhere, snatched the butterfly on the wing,
and departed for distant parts--accompanied by a few unseemly words from
me...

							Ken Philip
fnkwp at uaf.edu