Can you see the blue stick insect sitting on a stone on a dry river bed? We call them helicopters, but I still haven't worked out what they were called in the days before helicopters existed, as I'm sure they were around then too. They fly above rivers just like helicopters. I was very lucky to have the camera ready when this one settled down for a little rest before taking off again.
Fournes village, Hania.
Yes I did see it. What a cute little insect.
ReplyDeleteHello Med. Kiwi
ReplyDeleteThe strange thing about "helicopters" is that their previous name was Dragonflies...The last real scale dragonfly of course was killed brutally when it attempted to mate with a real helicopter...and that's the way the dragonfly crumbles! (No idea what the Greek term is....It's a very big moskito and if it bites, maybe its name is OUCH!!!)
Thanks for your message, we are back in the proper summer of 38 degrees and we took some days off away from mobile phones / internet...any kind of the sweet buzz of communication :-) (Back to my hometown now, Chalkida)
I was going to say they must be what we call Dragon Flies. It reminds me of them.
ReplyDeleteThat is a cute blue dragonfly.
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I thought the other was a snake >?? sandy
ReplyDeleteThey might have been called helicopters for long time - I think da Vinci actually invented the helicopter but no one built one that could actually fly until modern times.
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I would say it is what we call a dragonfly. But, I'm still cracking up laughing from aa's comment.
ReplyDeletethanks to all of you - i have spent long enough in greece to forget my english to the point that i cannot remember the word dragonfly any longer!
ReplyDeleteit did look like a stick to me...!!!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like what we call dragonflies or it might be a damselfly. They are sure busy where I live chomping up all the mosquitoes they can find!
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