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Photo#535707
dragonfly nymph? which one??

dragonfly nymph? which one??
Turner's Point Park, Sassafras River County, Maryland, USA
June 25, 2011
Size: fits on fingertip
picked up from a floating leaf of American lotus, this appears to be a casing from a hatched nymph, I think it's a dragonfly, but which one? This is the Sassafras River, a tidal freshwater tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.

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