The dragonfly is very much a creature of the air and of the sun. Although it has legs, which are spine-bordered and bunched forward, so it can cling and climb, it never walks. But in the air, a dragonfly is as graceful as a ballet dancer, while it swoops, turns, and zooms about at will. It can dive like a small plane, or hover like a helicopter, as long as the sun is shining. Dragonflies scoop up their victims with their legs, sucking their bodies dry and letting the carcasses fall to the ground.
Dragonflies are beneficial insects, keeping the populations of pests like mosquitoes, down.
The dragonfly has eyes that has many lenses. Its head is attached to the slender body in a way that the dragonfly can turn its head almost completely around, so it can see below as well as above him. Dragonflies are distributed throughout much the world, with about 5000 species living today. The dragonfly is an aquatic insect, and has two stages in its life cycle-the aquatic and the adult. In the adult stages, the male and female mate, and then the female deposits her eggs in the water, which will turn into nymphs.