Tuesday, September 2, 2025


 


He doesn’t need camouflage. He is the hide and seek champion. This tiny damselfly knows how to vanish in plain sight — by using the oldest trick in the wild playbook: stay still and let the world miss you. Balanced perfectly on a twig, only his bulging, alert eyes betray the fact that he’s even there at all. For a predator scanning the foliage, one blink… and he's gone. No speed, no fight — just silence and stillness. And sometimes, that’s enough to survive. Fun fact: Damselflies can rotate their heads and have nearly 360° vision. They often perch in narrow vertical spaces — like this — to break their outline from predators. Sometimes the smallest creatures have the smartest strategies.
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Hi, I'm a crane fly, commonly known as a giant mosquito. Due to the ignorance of many people, they took my life without me posing any danger.
I don't suck blood, I'm not a vampire. Feeding on the nectar of flowers and helping with pollination, just doing my natural duty. Now that you know me, please don't kill me.

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