{"id":1250,"date":"2007-09-12T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2012-05-07T22:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T03:52:36","slug":"stowaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Stowaways"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/center>I took a couple of minutes after work to stop by one of my favorite wetland patches to see if the dragonflies were doing anything. Most of them weren’t, but then I noticed this one buzzing around me. I stopped walking for a bit and he decided I looked like a better landing spot than the weeds, which were waving in the wind.<\/p>\n

As I looked down at my shin, a lone mosquito joined him. I wasn’t worried about the skeeter, as the denim wasn’t up against my skin. What was even more curious than the futility of this mosquito’s attempt at a meal was that she didn’t even notice what the dragonfly was doing! He was finishing up his meal…a mosquito! You can see the last wing sticking out of the dragonfly’s mouth. I snapped a few photos before this one, and it’s even more obvious there.<\/p>\n

I didn’t see many other dragonflies, the mosquitos were pretty thick, and I needed to get home for dinner. Aside from these two stowaways hitching a free ride in exchange for a photo, I didn’t really get anything else to post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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