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PHOTO OF THE DAY June 16, 2003  

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Where Unknown
When 1976
Photographer Bianca Lavies

"At full tilt, a barnstorming dragonfly veers over a lily pad. For two to eight weeks, dragonflies take to the air to mate. They die after their eggs are laid."

—From "Life Around a Lily Pad," January 1980, National Geographic magazine

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