🦂 dragonfly 🦂

The types of insects that we often encounter around us are called dragonflies, this animal is one of the predators of mosquitoes, ranging from stage nymph and adult insects. Nimfa dragonfly eat mosquito larvae, and adult dragonflies feed on adult mosquitoes. Dragonflies have a resemblance to the breeding habitat with Aedes aegypti. Dragonflies search for prey during the day along with the time of Aedes aegypti exit. Equal habitat will lead to effective effectiveness of effective mosquito dragonflies.

These animals are called groups of insects or insects that have characteristics consisting of three parts: 1. head (caput) 2. chest (thorax) 3. abdomen (stomach)

The head of the dragonfly is relatively large compared to its body, its shape is rounded / extended to the side with the back grooved inwards. The most striking part of the head is a pair of large compound eyes consisting of many small eyes called ommatidium. Between the two compound eyes there is a pair of short and smooth antennae like the stamens contained in the flower.

In his mouth developed in accordance with its function as a predator, the front there is a labrum (front lip), behind the labrum there is a pair of jaws (jaw) are strong to tear the body of its prey. Behind the mandible there is a pair of maxillas useful to help the work of the mandible, and the back of the mouth is the labium that becomes the back lip of this type of insect.

In the chest (thorax) consists of three segments namely protoraks, mesotoraks, and metatoraks, each supporting a pair of legs. According to the function of the dragonfly is included in the type of foot raptorial legs are used to stand and catch the prey. The stomach consists of several segments, slim and elongated like a tail or slightly widened. The edges are equipped with extras such as tassels that can be moved with a variety of shapes depending on the type of dragonfly itself.

Dragonflies have distinctive body shapes such as oblong / elongated and translucent, sometimes interesting as yellowish, green, blue or red. The wing sheets are supported by the venation. Experts identify and distinguish the dragonfly by looking at the arrangement of venation in its distinctive wing shape.