Ode Predation
Kenelm Philip
fnkwp at aurora.alaska.edu
Sat Sep 19 07:03:54 EDT 1998
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
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