[AG-EQ] Dragonflies and mosquitoes

[dogwood farm]

Jewel,

Mosquitoes here in the States are  out during the day, sometimes not
quite as prevalent  as during the night.  Some areas of the country
have such density of mosquitoes that locals will tell you they are as
big as hummingbirds.  Dragonflies and damselflies, which look like
smaller dragonflies with slimmer bodies, are really active around
ponds where they can feast on newly emerging mosquitoes.  There are
some dragonflies that are active during the night.  They are suppose
to be one of the fastest flying insects and are ruthless hunters.

Whe always have an abundance of dragonflies and damselflies in really
interesting jewel colors, bright green, blue, black, bronze and some
that have two different colors.  They will sometimes land on your hat
and use that as an observation platform while they look for insects,
then off they fly.

Susan
dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com

On 4/15/20, Jewel via AG-EQ <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I am sending this query to several of my lists as it doesn't seem to be,
> entirely, appropriate to
> any of them, but there may be a cupboard biologist on one of them who will
> know the answer.
> Last night, when I was playing my daily iphone game of "Seven Little Words",
> the hint was "A bug
> that eats mosquitoes"?  and the answer was "dragonfly".
> Given that the dragonfly is a creature of the day, while their prey is of
> the night, how does the
> first hunt down and devour the second?
>
>          Jewel
>
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