MAR 5, insects: Ricardo the dragonfly

a) Reprise of material posted on March 5 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, #9,10 (wordplay)
2021: patients and maladies, male infertility (illustrated poem) 

2022: Ontario nostalgia, Yonge Street (illustrated poem)
2023: Canadiana, prairie home (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 5, 2024): 

Authors' Note: Adult dragonflies are carnivores who hunt on the wing, consuming daily up to a fifth of their body-weight in various flying insects, mosquitoes being one of their favorites. 

In the photo by GC, shot in the Muskoka region of Ontario, the insect temporarily has lighted (with wings typically spread) on a tiger lily, presumably to seek as prey the pollen-seeking insects attracted there. 

You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as  collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.