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Dragonflies are insects. They can't fold their wings back when they are adults. Dragonflies are bigger than damselflies. Dragonfly nymphs use their masks to spear their prey. Dragonfly adults can fly thirty five miles per hour (faster than damselflies). Dragonflies have longer and fatter abdomens. They mate when the female flies into the males territory. the male grabs the back of the female's head with his claspers. Then the female attaches her abdomen to the males abdomen and they fly off together. Then the female begins laying eggs in the water while the male has her head in his claspers! Damselflies can fold their wings back as adults. Damselflies have skinnier abdomens than dragonflies. Both have an incomplete metamorphosis. Their life cycles are the same. First the adult female lays her eggs in the water. Then the nymph hatches from the egg. It stays in the water anywhere from three months to five years. Then it crawls up a piece of grass and pushes his way out (molts). It is now an adult and it spends the next few hours pumping fluid from it's abdomen to it's wings. The wings are also drying.And they both have compound eyes. |
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Dragonflies are insects. They have three body parts and six legs. They go through a metamorphosis, it is not a complete metamorphosis because it only has three stages. A dragonfly has a thorax, an abdomen and a head. Dragonflies eat bees, horseflies and minnows. Three hundred million years ago when the dinosaurs lived the dragonflies wing span was twenty eight to thirty two inches. They were a lot bigger then than they are now! A dragonflies predators are, frogs, birds and fish. Damselflies can fold their wings back to rest. A damsel fly cleans his mouth on pieces of grass bristle. Damselfly adults are not like dragonfly adults, they are a lot different. Damselflies, like dragonflies have claspers. They both lay eggs in the water. They both have compound eyes. They both molt on a piece of grass. They both camouflage. |
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A dragonfly has a bigger abdomen than a damselfly. Dragonflies always scoop up their prey with their basket. Dragonflies are good because they eat mosquitoes, flies, gnats, horse flies and bees, even wasps! Dragonflies can fly up to thirty five miles per hour. Dragonflies can't fold their wings back. A dragonflies nymph is larger than a damselflies nymph. I think the dragonflies nymph eats bigger things than the damselfly nymphs. Damselflies have a smaller abdomen than dragonflies. Damselflies can bring their wings back and dragonflies can't. Damselflies camouflage better than dragonlies, because you don't usually see them. Both of them lay their eggs in the water. They both have compound eyes. They both catch their prey the same way. (They form a basket with their legs.) Both of them have the same life cycle. It is called an incomplete metamorphosis because there are only three stages. |
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Dragonflies are faster than damselflies. The dragonfly nymph eats baby fish, they are not very big. A dragonfly nymph spear it's prey with it's mask to eat it. Adult dragonflies can fly up to thirty five miles per hour. The dragonfly has three body parts, it's head, it's abdomen and it's thorax. That's the parts of the body. An adult dragonfly is much bigger than an adult damselfly. It has a fatter abdomen. Adult dragonflies cannot bend their wings back. Dragonflies lived three hundred million years ago and are still here today, now that is a long time. Damselflies can bend their wings back. Damselflies are slower than dragonflies. damselflies have a smaller abdomens than dragonflies. Damselflies lay their eggs in the water. They are very pretty insects. They both lay their eggs in the water. They both are very pretty insects. They have the same life cycle. They both have an incomplete metamorphosis. |
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