Insects Dragonflies 2

Damselflies suborder zygoptera are sometimes also called dragonflies in that both are odonates order odonata.

Insects dragonflies 2. Most people love to have dragonflies in their gardens if only because dragonflies love to eat mosquitoes. Hymenoptera ants bees wasps coleoptera beetles weevils continue reading. Usually insects comprise a class within the arthropoda. The dragonfly and its smaller cousin the damselfly belong to an ancient order of insects known as odonata and have carried symbolic meaning for centuries.

Insects or insecta from latin insectum are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylumdefinitions and circumscriptions vary. Theyve had a long time to perfect the art of flying hunting and just being. Arriving on the scene around 300 million years ago dragonflies are one of the first insects to inhabit this planet. Read this article to learn what plants attract dragonflies so you can invite these helpful insects to your garden area.

See photos of freshwater insects dragonfly damselfly waterbug in this photo gallery from national geographic. Dragonflies are beautiful to watch as they sweep back and forth over open areas of water lawns or parking lots. Their bright colors and powerful flight attract our eye to them. As used here the term insecta is synonymous with ectognathainsects have a chitinous exoskeleton a three part body head thorax and abdomen three pairs of jointed legs compound.

Meganisoptera is an extinct order of very large to gigantic insects occasionally called griffinfliesthe order was formerly named protodonata the proto odonata for their similar appearance and supposed relation to modern odonata damselflies and dragonfliesthey range in palaeozoic late carboniferous to late permian timesthough most were only slightly larger than modern dragonflies. Dragonfly suborder anisoptera any of a group of roughly 3000 species of aerial predatory insects most commonly found near freshwater habitats throughout most of the world.