Dragonfly

Appearance
           The dragonfly has large wings, basket-like legs, and a large head. The adult head has large eyes, and short antennae. It's mouth is used only to catch flies and eat.
     The legs are in the front of the body and are used mainly to cling onto leaves and twigs.
     Most dragonflies wings are 5 to 8 cm, but the usual size for a tropical dragonfly's wings are 20 cm!!!!
     The dragonfly has developed gills connected to their tracheae, to send oxygen to their tracheae, and then to the rest of the body.

Babies
         Most of the time, dragonflies drop their eggs into the water. The eggs spend most of their lives underwater as nymphs. The nymphs have a special extendable hinged mask over their mouths that can reach forward to grasp food.
     Eventually the nymphs will crawl out of the water (about 2-3 years later) and will grow wings and become an adult.

Types
          There are about 5900 different types of dragonflies. Some popular types are:   darning needle
                                        snake feeder
                                        snake doctor     and
                                        mosquito hawk