Dragonfly, B4, oil on canvas.

The Dragonfly represents the Japanese island, because of its form.

As a seasonal symbol in Japan, the dragonfly is associated with autumn.

Dragonfly is a popular symbol in japan and we often use it in arts, poems and in literature.

The Dragonfly represents the inner world of the child, that it wants to be free in the nature, but it can't.

And typically, there is a lot of variation, but if you have a dragonfly with, say, a one year life cycle, which is quite typical, the larva, living in the fresh water, lives for 10 or 11 months.

Now, the particular species of dragonfly I want to talk about is this one, because most dragonflies, like the one we've just seen, when the adult is there for its brief one or two months of life, it doesn't go very far. It can't travel very far.

The American supply consisted of Lockheed F 80, Lockheed T 33, Beech T 34 Mentor, Cessna T 37, Cessna A 37 Dragonfly and Northrop F 5E F for example, whereas the British supplied Hawker Hunters and the French delivered various helicopters and Dassault Mirage 50 aircraft.

While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little dragonfly called the globe skimmer, only to discover that it had the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world.