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Making “darner’s prism” was its own exercise in momentum.

A green darner can travel as far as 900 miles on its two-inch wings, fluttering from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

He captured this time-lapse video, below, of the metamorphosis of a common green darner dragonfly from a larval nymph.

The common green darner he captures and holds demonstrates its pugnacity by clamping minuscule bulldog jaws on his finger, drawing a yelp from Jackson.

A handful of green darner dragonflies zip above the grass and luxuriate in the sun.