A southern hawker dragonfly, Aeshna cyanea, newly emerged from its exuvia on the leaf of a water soldier in a garden pond

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Photo credit: © Nigel Cattlin / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: adult, aeshna, aeshnidae, august, close, cyanea, dragonfly, emerge, emerged, emerging, exuvia, garden, hatched, hatching, hawker, insect, insecta, leaf, odonata, pond, slipped, soldier, southern, water