Blue Dasher I.
by Chris Kusik
Title
Blue Dasher I.
Artist
Chris Kusik
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
This little beauty was patient with me. Blue Dashers grow to about 1.5 inches. They are agile flyers and routinely grab prey in mid air. Dragonflies are important predators that eat mosquitoes, and other small insects like flies, bees, ants, wasps, and very rarely butterflies. They are usually found around marshes, lakes, ponds, streams, and wetlands because their larvae are aquatic. Dragonflies are some of the fastest insects in the world. They fly at speeds up to 35 miles per hour. The body of the dragonfly is supported by two pairs of extremely powerful wings that help it float at the slightest breeze and can flap fast and hard enough to hover even against a strong head wind. The insects have compound eyes with almost 30,000 components. Its eyes are ball-like and see at a complete 360 degree span. Dragonflies have been around for 300 million years. Fossils have been found with impressions of dragonflies having wingspans of over two feet.
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July 25th, 2012
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