Adult dragonflies will also eat any insect they can catch. While they usually eat mosquitoes and midges, they’ll also eat butterflies, moths, bees, flies and even other dragonflies. Larger dragonflies will eat their own body weight in insect prey every day.

Dragonflies – Invertebrates – Animal Encyclopedia.

Like all insects, damselflies and dragonflies have six legs, two pairs of wings, two antennae, and three body parts—head, thorax, and abdomen. They wear their skeletons on the outside of their bodies. This tough outer covering is called an exoskeleton.

If a dragonfly lands on you, it is seen to be good luck. Seeing a dragonfly in dreams or if one suddenly appears in your life, it is a sign of caution. Something in your life is hidden from view, or the truth is being kept from you.

Dragonflies, like most insects and animals in general, have circadian rhythms of wakefulness that we could interpret as sleep cycles. They may fly at dusk but are inactive during the night. So, basically, they totally sleep – but in more of a dormancy-focused manner.

Dragonflies like to sun themselves, and the warmth of flat rocks provides the perfect setting. Try a mix of light and dark rocks and observe which colour attracts more dragonflies to your area.

Dragonflies (order Odonata, suborder Anisoptera) and normally diurnal. However some dragonflies are active by night. This is particularly true of long distance migrants that travel over open water where they cannot roost so must continue to fly even after dark (Corbet 1984; Hong-Qiang et al 2006).

These acrylic dragonflies use LED lights to glow in the dark and are solar powered. They shine for 6 to 8 hours when fully charged. While they sway in the wind like chimes they make no sound, just a luminous beauty.

💩 Dragonflies do of course poo – just as any other living thing needs to expel waste. You don’t see it happen very often but ‘Dragonfly MCR’ managed to capture this great photo of an epic Dragonfly poo last summer!

Dragonflies are drawn to areas where there is standing water, such as ponds, streams and wetlands. If you have a pond or stream near your land, or if recent rains have left flooded areas, this may draw dragonflies to your yard. They breed in water and feed on insects found near water, such as mosquitoes.

According to wildlife enthusiast Phyllis Carlson, the increased dragonfly activity is probably a result of the abundant rain this summer, which has helped to produce more of the dragonfly’s insect prey, such as mosquitoes.