Dragonflies are attractive insects with multifaceted eyes, an elongated body, and two pairs of strong, transparent wings.

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Dragonflies are attractive insects with multifaceted eyes, an elongated body, and two pairs of strong, transparent wings. They eat mosquitoes, midges, and other small insects, and are valued as predators in controlling unwelcome insect populations. They are usually found near ponds, streams and wetalnds because the larvae (nymphs) are aquatic. This is a male neurothemis terminata terminata, common in Asia. The male is easily distinguished from the female by his dark red wings with red pterostigma, the female wings are transparent.

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Size: 5120px × 3413px
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Photo credit: © Louise Heusinkveld / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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