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 ...

Most dragonfly larvae, which are aquatic for one to two years, are utterly insatiable, eating everything they come across, including tadpoles, fish, and mosquito and other insect larvae.

“I have a colleague who used to call them micro-monsters.” Many mercury studies focus on fish, but researchers involved in the project say dragonfly larvae are more appropriate candidates for a ...

Though dragonfly larvae were known to be eaten, he said there had been no evidence of the adults having been consumed raw. According to Watanabe, dragonfly larvae are an abundant source of protein ...

In a freshwater pond, it's "eat or be eaten." 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 ...

LIFE CYCLE: Larvae live for up to five years, and adults live for at most seven weeks more. It is a short adulthood of feeding, sexual interaction, and egg deposition. When it emerges as an adult, a ...