The Great Escape

Background story:
Sundew is a carnivorous plant that grows on poor soil and for nutrition she�s depended on other sources, like... more

by Roeselien Raimond

Title

The Great Escape

Artist

Roeselien Raimond

Medium

Photograph - Nature Photography

Description

Background story:
Sundew is a carnivorous plant that grows on poor soil and for nutrition she�s depended on other sources, like damselflies.
The beautiful, but deadly plant secretes a deliciously smelling mucilage, to lure insects.
The insects eat the sundew , while -at the very same moment- they are being absorbed by this same plant.
So most insects that land on sundew face death.
But not this one!
This lucky (or clever?) damselfly used the flower of the sundew as a lifeline.
By climbing it, she managed to escape and minutes after she made her big mistake, she was flying high again, further and further away from this almost fatal lunch.

Exact location: Bentveld, North Holland
Country: The Netherlands
Bait used: No
IUCN Status: Drosera rotundifolia (the common sundew or round-leaved sundew) => Endangered

Technical information:
No specialist equipment and for other data: see EXIF

Post processing:
No special post processing

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August 15th, 2015