Injured Dragonfly

Beheaded Dragonfly, Still Living
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While driving home from work today yesterday (LJ has been giving me posting fits) I noticed an injured dragonfly on the seat next to me. I took it home, occasionally carrying it on my finger, and took some pictures of it. As you can see above, it seems pretty injured. It would only move around using some of its legs, always staying in that head-tilted-forward / almost-handstand position.

After taking some pictures and letting it set next to me for a while, I took it outside and set it next to the rosemary bush to die.

The other alternative was to kill it quickly with ether, but I didn’t really want to do that.

Anyway, all of the photos can be seen here (photo gallery retired).

Around midnight I went outside to look at it, and it was just barely moving. It still seemed alive, though. :(