This characteristic makes them hard to catch. Grasshoppers also are an important food source for a wide variety of aimals such as birds, spiders, lizards, snakes, turtles, and field mice, and other insects. Dragonflies are incredible aerial acrobats, seemingly able to perform impossible maneuvers. Dragonflies have very keen vision, with a field of vision that is almost a complete sphere. They employ their visual and flying skills to catch smaller insects in the air.
Dragonflies consume a large percentage of their own body weight in insects each and every day.
The dragonflies lay their eggs along the edges of water, where their aquatic larvae will act as important predators on mosquito larvae, horsefly larvae, and other small arthropods. When you walk in the woodland area, you might find termites, ants, flies, dragonflies, damselflies, beetles, butterflies, and moths. In order to find some of these insects, you will have to flip over a couple of rocks. Near the spring, you will probably encounter Broadwinged Damselflies. The Broadwinged Damselfly can be identified by its black wings and shiny green body.