The first etiolated stem reaches out, hungry for light. And another, and another. They grow in silence, draining the wrinkled skin once firm and smooth. The aging mother is all but spent now. Her form disappears beneath the writhing mass as the stems climb ever higher.
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lost and found - the sack of potatoes
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Saturday, 8 September 2018
departed - no. 2
The dragonfly nymph can take up to four years to become fully grown.
Once the weather is right it will then climb up the stem of a plant and complete the process of metamorphosis by shedding its skin.
The young dragonfly has departed and all that remains is its discarded skin, the exuvia.
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