Damselflies and Dragonflies These predatory insects feed on mosquitoes and gnats. Some of the rare types are barrens bluet damselflies and lateral bluet damselflies. Weed A common plant, it grows in healthier ponds, in water as high as a foot and a half, with its roots taking hold in sediment. Violet-blue flowers bloom from June to October. This bird, which has a distinctive call, is disappearing because of human encroachment on the habitat.
Whippoorwills spend winters in Central and South America.
They feed at night on large flying beetles and moths. Most populous turtle on the pond, it reaches 8 inches long as an adult and eats aquatic vegetables and some insects. It lives in the pond and winters at the bottom of the pond and basks in the sun on logs and stones. The turtle gets its name from yellow and red markings on the edges of its shell.