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| Dave Rogers's praying mantis stalking us! Photo courtesy of Jennifer Henry |
Today we learned all about dragonflies and damselflies (odonates) at the Desert Botanical Garden. We learned that dragonflies are different than damselflies. Damselflies have their wings back and on the side of them, and dragonflies have their wings in front of them. We also learned that damselflies have skinny and long abdomens; on the other hand, dragonflies have short and stout abdomens. We finished off the day by eating chocolate covered crickets and chocolate covered larvae!
You can see more of Dave Rogers art at http://www.big-bugs.com/. See a dragonfly nymph hatching here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rxBVE_t5OU&feature=grec_index&noredirect=1
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| Demonstrating proper dragonfly netting technique. |
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| Dragonfly art |
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| Dragonfly nymphs collected from the pond. |
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| Pond scooping. |
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| Samantha is eating a chocolate covered cricket! YUM! |
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