One of the hazards of bringing dragonfly and damselfly nymphs into your house overnight is that they sometimes molt into adults and fly away when you’re not looking.  That’s what happened with this one:

Fragile forktail (Ischnura posita) damselfly female

Found it sitting on the wall the next morning.  My husband is always SO happy when these things happen…

(Note: it is very difficult to convey sarcasm in a blog post.)

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