Predators

Aren't they cute?  Just kidding. These are some of the dragonfly larva that live in aquariums in our garage. Their life cycle is being studied and thus they get to have their picture taken at various stages of their development. Incidentally they have been voraciously eating over the past few weeks.  The two on the left are swamp darners, the 3rd is a cyrano darner and the 4th, which we fondly named James (some of you will get this), is a springtime darner.  Absolutely fascinating if you ask me.