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Thanks for the compliment on the dragonfly 55bloke, but the others are right. What's one person's favourite may not be another's.
As for the story behind it, it happened by chance as there's no way you can set something like that up, nor would I want to sacrifice a butterfly for such a shot. I had seen a single DG fritillary, the first that I'd seen this year, and was looking for it to appear again for a photo when I saw it fly across about 20 feet away. Then suddenly it just spiralled down into the grass. The dragonfly had taken it clean out of the air. These butterflies are pretty powerful fliers but the dragonfly's capture was astonishingly fast as I didn't even see it approach.
I found them both in the grass as you see the shot.

Thanks for the info. It is a fantastic photo. I love dragonflies, but my God they're hard to photograph!!

Here's my entry...
A pair of mating Glanville Frits taken in the "summer"



Trev

Some amazing photos on here, but I'll still go ahead as it's an uncommon one - to me at least! Not exactly a behavioural photo....well just taking off in flight could be sort of termed a Butterfly's behaviour I suppose? Anyway, here is mine, a Clouded Yellow taken 25th September 2006.

Sue.

Here is my entry - Apollo laying eggs. I followed this lady about half hour and it was laying eggs continuously, but not even once for the Sedum telephium that is larva's only food plant... well, maybe larva's found them anyway because every year you can see these marvelous species flying in the same rocks.