I can even remember a few times when a dragonfly larva blessed the pond at my parents’ house. I’d watch them crawl out of the ...

Dragonflies are aquatic insects that thrive near water. Their larvae live under (or near) freshwater sources for weeks, months—or for some species, years—until they reach maturity.

A dragonfly larva eats a midge; a water beetle larva eats a damselfly larva. Snail larvae grow. A beetle larva eats one. Up close, we see the eating apparatus of a damselfly larva—with a ...

Eventually, the larva climbs out of the water; its outer "skin," or exoskeleton ... and caught a Gomphus militaris with the wing of a damselfly still hanging from its mouth.