All You Need to Know About Dragonflies

… is that they have empty heads and hairy backs. (In fairness, I’ve seen hairier.) It’s very hard to show how little there is between the neck and those two bulging eyes, and this zoomed closeup is close as I’ve come.

July 29, 2023. Cropped from a larger image. Nikon D850 (FX sensor), Tamron 100–400mm at 400 mm, f/6.3, 1/1,000, ISO 400.