enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Video: Swarm of dragonflies took over Misquamicut Beach ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/video-swarm-dragonflies-took-over...

    For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

  3. Dragonfly - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly

    Dragonflies having simple flaps shed the eggs in water, mostly in flight. Dragonflies having ovipositors use them to puncture soft tissues of plants and place the eggs singly in each puncture they make. [32] [34] [35] [36] Dragonfly nymphs vary in form with species, and are loosely classed into claspers, sprawlers, hiders, and burrowers. [17]

  4. Odonata - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odonata

    Odonata is an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies (as well as the Epiophlebia damsel-dragonflies). The two major groups are distinguished with dragonflies (Anisoptera) usually being bulkier with large compound eyes together and wings spread up or out at rest, while damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) are usually more slender with eyes placed apart and ...

  5. Common whitetail - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_whitetail

    The common whitetail or long-tailed skimmer (Plathemis lydia) is a common dragonfly across much of North America, with a striking and unusual appearance.The male's chunky white body (about 5 cm or 2 inches long), combined with the brownish-black bands on its otherwise translucent wings, give it a checkered look.

  6. The dragonfly wants to inspire you to connect to the earth and with yourself in a more conscious and magical way." But dragonflies are not the only insects that act as messengers in your dreams!

  7. External morphology of Odonata - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_morphology_of_Odonata

    Males also have secondary genitalia (including the anterior lamina, hamuli and posterior lamina) on S2 and S3. Female damselflies and some dragonflies have a strong ovipositor on the underside of S8 and S9, but in many dragonflies the egg-laying apparatus is merely a spout, a basket, or a pair of flaps. Some species have foliations (leaf-like ...

  8. Odonatoptera - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odonatoptera

    The Odonatoptera are a superorder (sometimes treated as an order) of ancient winged insects, placed in the probably paraphyletic group Palaeoptera.The dragonflies and damselflies (which are placed in the subgroup Odonata) are the only living members of this group, which was far more diverse in the late Paleozoic and contained gigantic species, including the griffinflies (colloquially called ...

  9. Macromia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromia

    Macromia is a genus of large dragonflies in the family Macromiidae. [2] Species of the genus Macromia are commonly known as river cruisers from their habit of cruising long distances along river banks.