Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Dragonflies are efficient predators

A study has found that small, fiercely predatory damselflies catch and eat hundreds of thousands of insects during a single summer -- in an area surrounding just a single pond. In terms of weight, this equates to a total prey mass of just under a kilo. Dragonflies mostly catch different kinds of midges, but also large numbers of other insects.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2IfN71l

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