Contest: "Animals-photography"

I am @sandimal from Lanka🇱🇰. Today I am participating on the contest in Steems of Animals community. This is my first post in this community. So, first of all I would like to thank @muzack1 for sharing this contest with us.

So guys, I was in my rest room when I saw this post. So, since I saw the post, I paid special attention to the animals in the environment. There is a small rock formation behind the rest room where I am staying. So when I was walking in that direction, I saw a dragonfly roaming around. My mobile phone was nearby so I took few photos. So I have submitted some pictures of this dragonfly for this contest.

You have all seen dragonflies. Dragonflies can be seen especially around water sources. They have two pair of transparent wings. There is also a long tail like part. To be precise, they have the shape of a helicopter. As we have heard, the shape of this dragonfly has also been used to design the shape of the helicopter. If you study the environment carefully, you can see dragonflies of different colors. The dragonfly I saw was a brilliant blue color and black.

The scientific name of the dragonfly is Neopetaliidae petaluridae as I found on the internet. I have mentioned its link below.

Domain : Eukaryota
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Odonata
Suborder	Epiprocta

Link

According to the findings I found on the internet, dragonfly is a very good hunter. Insects smaller than dragonflies are his food. Dragonfly has incomplete metamorphosis. As we learned in our school time incomplete metamorphosis have eggs, nymph and adult stages. They spend the nymph stage from two weeks to 5 years. It may vary depending on the species. Depending on their species, the adult stage is between five and 10 weeks. In most species this is less than five weeks. Dragonflies have compound eyes and they can move those in a wide rang. So they are showing quick responses to external movements.

As we heard from the society dragonflies are friends of the farmers. Because they are predators of small insects harmful to crops. So dragonfly is doing a great job on our agriculture. We should care on this innocent creature.

I hope you have enjoyed my photo collection and added something to your knowledge. Actually, not only you, thanks to this contest I also learned a lot of unknown facts about the dragonfly. So my dear friends take care until we meet another day in a new contest like this. Good bye🤗