Showing posts with label Making Me Cross Eyed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Making Me Cross Eyed. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Red Eyed Blue Dragonfly (Photo) Making Me Cross Eyed

It was a blast getting out in the sun today and shooting something besides festivals.
Here's one of the first photos I took and for the past three hours it's been driving me crazy.

The research (all over the internet) has helped me narrow it down to this:
IT'S A BLUE DRAGONFLY WITH RED EYES !

After looking at a few thousand thumbnails of dragonflies, trying to come up with a scientific name for the critter, I gave up.  It's making me cross eyed and that ain't good.

Anybody out there got a degree in bug-ology?

The closest I came to identifying this bug was something called a Blue Dasher.

I don't make this stuff up.  The scientists named it Pachydipiax longipennis.

They're common in the USA but I took this photo in Okinawa, Japan.

You don't suppose bug smugglers are bringing them over here and turning them loose in the woods. 
Do you ?