What is the story of the dragonfly?
The dragonfly’s life is the story of an ugly creature who grew into an eye catching beauty. We see her only in the final stage when she is a beauteous adult flying insect. Most of her past life was spent in a stream as a clumsy, wingless water bug of dreary brown. Amphibious animals spend part of their lives in the water and part on land. At one stage they transfer from water breathers to air breathers and most of them make other drastic changes at this time. The dragonfly is an amphibious insect who spends one to five years as a very unattractive looking water bug. Her glamorous life in the air lasts only a few short months. Life begins when the adult dragonfly drops her eggs onto the surface of a pond or stream. There may be l00,000 little eggs 3inked together in a string, and the mother. insect may dip down to wash them from her body. The eggs float or cling to water Weeds arid many of them are devoured by hungry pond dwellers. After one or two weeks, those that escape hatch into ny
