1. STRETCHING THE STREAM DRAGONFLIES
NAME - Dragonfly
COMMON NAME - Dragonfly
FAMILY NAME - Odonata
SCIENTIFIC NAME – Anisoptera

2. DESCRIPTION
SIZE - 19 cm COLOUR - black and yellow stripes (in new Zealand) LENGTH - 12 cm WEIGHT - 0.0o3 Grams HEIGHT – 2.5 to 10 centimetres in length

3. WHAT DO DRAGONFLIES EAT?
YOUNG DrAGONFLIES: 1. tadpoles 2. small fish ADULT DRAGONFLIES: 1. mosquitoes 2. smaller dragonflies note: THEY ALSO EAT flieS, ants, aphids and termites

4. 1. Fish 2. frogs 3. bees 4. Water shrews 5. Sundew plants 6. ducks
Predators
1. Fish 2. frogs 3. bees 4. Water shrews 5. Sundew plants 6. ducks

5. HABITAT
THIS IS MY PICTURE OF A DRAGONFLY IN ITS HABITAT WITH SOME OF ITS PREDATORS AROUND IT. IT SHOWS A STREAM AND POND WHERE IT LIVES WITH GRASS AND TREES AROUND IT.

6. ADAPTIVE FEATURES
1. They use their wings to fly away from thEIR predators at speed. 2. THEY HAVE GREAT EYESIGHT TO HELP THEM FIND AND CAPTURE PREY. 3.THEY CAN USE THEIR WINGS TO HOVER, FLY BACKWARDS AND TAKE OFF VERTICALLY JUST LIKE A HELICOPTER TO HELP THEM CATCH PREY. 4. THEY CAN TURN THEIR HEAD ALMOST ALL THE WAY ROUND WHICH GIVES THEM GREAT VISION ALSO

7. first: egg second: nymph third: dragonfly
LIFE CYCLE OF A DRAGONFLY
first: egg second: nymph third: dragonfly

8. INFORMATION
1.DRAGONFLIES ARE CARNIVORES 2.DRAGONFLIES WERE AROUND AT THE SAME TIME AS DINOSAURS 3.AS NYMPHS, DRAGONFLIES LIVE IN THE WATER 4.UP TO 90% OF YOUNG DRAGONFLIES GET EATEN BY PREDATORS 5.DRAGONFLIES HAVE A LIFE SPAN OF ABOUT A YEAR 6.DRAGONFLY NYMPHS BREATHE THROUGH THEIR BOTTOMS! 7.i have seen a dragonfly because my neighbour brought one to our house that she found at her son’s house in pukerua bay. I looked at it with my magnifying glass it was huge. I wish I had kept it now so I could show you! 8. roughly 4,500 species of dragonfly exist

9. BIBLIOGRAPHY
WEBSITES 1 WIKIPEDIA INSECTS.ABOUT.COM/DRAGONFLIES 4 ADAPTIVE CHARACTERISICS OF THE DRAGONFLY/ANIMALS 5 BOOKS 1 WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A DRAGONFLY? BY JINNEY JOHNSON 2 DRAGONFLIES NATURES CLOSE - UPS

10. THE END
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