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Monday Morning Mysteries Answered
In the past two weeks, I posted two insect-related Monday mysteries.
The first, above, asked what I photographed in my backyard next to the Celery Farm last month.
The answer, given correctly by Ginny, is that it is a Cicada's exoskeleton — left in this case on an New York Ironweed stem. More about Cicadas' exoskeletons here. (Nice going, Ginny!)
The second mystery, below, asked readers to I.D. this dragonfly. I'll have to go with Joe Lafferty's identification:
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