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~ The great survivors. The masters of flight. The all-seeing. Nature's winged jewels. Dragonflies are all these and more. My undergraduate and graduate students soon realize that Tom is especially fond of dragonflies, bats and hummingbirds. Natural selection yielded a winning design in the Carboniferous period when dragonfly prototypes emerged. This Trithemis kirbyi, Orange-winged Dropwing, remained in place long enough for these portraits to be made.