Comments on: Dragonfly Nymph

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:14:44 +0000

I saw some this week end that a wildlife agent had dipped from the Lumber River. What was weird was they all( dragon fly and damsel fly nymphs) had very long legs . We do an entomology demos for the kids that come to the John E. Pechmann Fishing Education Center here in Fayetteville NC.The nymphs that we get out of the lake have shorter legs. I tie flies and seeing these nymphs of different sizes and proportions is great , I can tie a wider variety lies. thanks for the size.

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:58:41 +0000

Eddie: This particular one was about 15 mm long, but they obviously vary a lot with species. Some years ago, we were walking along the Houghton waterfront, and saw four or five dragonfly nymphs crawling onto the beach to molt, and they were probably 2-3 times this size.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:27:19 +0000

Great post , very interesting how they are jet propelled. I was wondering how long these were?

By: Krishna

Krishna — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:10 +0000

Nice observation

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:25:41 +0000

They eat snails? Convenient! You encourage me greatly, next time we should raise one up and see which kind of dragonfly it is.

By: GrannyJ

GrannyJ — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:11:12 +0000

Many, many years ago, my husband & I set up a small aquarium with all sorts of pond critters, including snails. After about a month, we had one critter only. You can guess what it was. Shortly thereafter, it climbed up a stick and did the transformation trick. Very, very impressive.