A helpful friend surrounded by childhood memories: the Asian pintail dragonfly

Hello friends, how are you all? I hope you are all doing well and healthy.

Today I am going to share with you a macro photo of a beautiful little dragonfly taken from my garden.

Seeing this dragonfly made me feel like I was back in my childhood. In my childhood days, these dragonfly were seen in abundance in the nature of our village. We used to play a lot with our friends by catching them. These dragonfly were so clever and fast that it was very difficult to catch them with our bare hands. As soon as we got in their reach, they would quickly fly away. So we came up with another idea. We would apply 'Glue of the Jigar tree' to the head of a thin bamboo stick. Then, very carefully, we would go behind the dragonfly and grab the stick, and when they got stuck in the glue, we would gently release them and tie a light thread to the dragonfly's tail. Then, holding one end of the thread, we would fly them into the sky.
Those days and childhood memories were really great. We used to do these things every afternoon with joy. But now that I have grown up and learned to understand nature, I regret it very much. If I had understood how beneficial this little creature is for our environment and nature when I was a child, maybe we would never have hurt or killed them like this under the guise of playing.

​Let's find out some wonderful scientific facts about this beneficial friend of ours, the dragonfly. Below are all its detailed information:

​Common name: Asian pintail or Grizzled Pintail. It is called trumpet tail because its tail looks a lot like a flute.
​Scientific name: Acisoma panorpoides. This dragonfly in the photo I took is basically a female dragonfly.
​Family: It is a small insect belonging to the Libellulidae family.
​Genus: Its genus is Acisoma.

​Size: dragonfly of this species are quite small in size. They are usually only 25 to 30 millimeters long.

​Habitat and habitat: They are found in abundance in the nature of various South Asian countries including Bangladesh and India. They mainly prefer to live in pond banks, swamps, damp wild grasses and bushes.

​Food: Although they look very small, they are very fierce predators. Mosquitoes, small flies and various small insects harmful to crops are their main food.

​Reproduction: Their reproduction process is quite wonderful. Female or female dragonfly lay eggs in the calm water of ponds or swamps. The babies that hatch from the eggs are called nymphs. They spend their lives underwater until they grow up and grow wings.

​Benefits: These dragonfly are a great friend to maintain the balance of our nature. They benefit our environment by eating a large number of harmful mosquitoes and crop pests every day. They are a great friend to our farmers.

​Disadvantages: This little dragonfly has no disadvantages or bad sides. They do not cause any harm to humans or crops, they are completely safe.

I was very happy to meet this little friend and take pictures of it. I hope you all liked my childhood story and the wonderful information about this grasshopper.

Thank you all very much for reading my post.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)
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Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	MIX
Cassidinae	Grizzled Pintail (Acisoma panorpoides)
Photographer	Hive account@mshbd
Location	Purulia, Natore, Bangladesh