Dragonflies are predatory animals, the success rate in hunting prey can reach 95 percent, with the ability to fly in the air, diving in the water, flying backwards, rotating 360 degrees and turning 180 degrees, the ability to fly can even reach 30 miles per hour and has existed since three hundred million years ago. Dragonflies (subordo Anisoptera) and needle dragonflies (subordo Zygoptera) are insects belonging to the Odonata, are friendly animals with beautiful shapes so many people like them like butterflies.
These animals can be found from the coast to the highlands, they spread and often we find both in the yard of houses, in rice fields, in forests, by the beach, in lakes, in rivers even in urban environments. Dragonfly or also called Sibar-sibar and dragonfly needle like a watery environment to lay eggs, they put their eggs on plants in water, stagnant water or running water. Hatching eggs extract larvae or tempayak will live and grow in the bottom of the water, undergoing metamorphosis and then evolved into a nymph and then out of water into adult dragonflies. The life cycle of dragonflies varies, from eggs, hatches to adulthood ranging from 6 months to 6 or 7 years, the longest life cycle in the form of nymphs below the water surface, when out of water as a dragonfly mature lifetime of at most about 4 months. since in the water in the form of larvae and nymphs live as carnifora malignant animals, as larvae eat plankton and as nymphs hunt and prey on the children of fish and tadpoles. Adult dragonfly preys on mosquitoes, flies and other insects.