The Best Photo of The Week - All kind dragonflies.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6G IS USM
200mm ƒ/5.6 1/800s ISO 200
2019 Zoomarine, Rome

Why are dragonflies good as creatures usable in environmental education? They can't bite seriously, they can't sting, they can't affect you in any way. They are beautiful, clean, without being contaminated with any germs.

The action must be fun, interesting, enjoyable - for everyone; to be practical, intelligible in purpose, credible in results. It must make sense for knowledge, science - even if it sounds pretentious. They are quite easy to detect. They are quite diverse, as species, but not too many - to be able to (re) know them at least approximately - at the level of some young people.

They can be determined at the species level based on good photos (by an expert who knows what he is saying). They are not very studied, so interesting data can result. You can take splendid macro pictures, maps with the spread of the species, memories can result for a lifetime about the days spent near the waters.





Dragonfly. The presence on all surfaces, in various sizes and colors, delights you looking at their fast flight and varied colors. Insect with long and thin body, large head and transparent-transparent wings, exclusively diurnal, which usually live near water, and can be found in areas away from the water's luster due to the fact that they are very good fliers. The color of the body is varied: red, green, yellow-blue. The eyes are large, giving the insect an extremely wide field of view, to which is added the ability to rotate the head by almost 360 degrees.

Although I like butterflies, I must admit that dragonflies are also an excellent subject for learning about nature. I could add some topics, for example aspects related to behavior and biology (territoriality, nutrition, wedding parade, metamorphosis), plus something for everyone, even for those who have nothing to do with nature.