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Fourth@mander.xyz to Entomology@mander.xyz · 4 months ago

6th dragonfly hatched out of my tank this season

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6th dragonfly hatched out of my tank this season

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Fourth@mander.xyz to Entomology@mander.xyz · 4 months ago
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Maybe a meadowhawk?

https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.php?identification=Meadowhawk-Sympetrum

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  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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    Dragonflies might be my favourite bug. They’re hungry for mosquitoes, hover capable, shiny, and big. The hummingbird of insects, 10/10.

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      Not only that, but they’re deadly killers in their nymph stage too. Elite aquatic hunters in the water and attack helicopters in the sky. Truly an apex predator in their niche.

    • Fourth@mander.xyzOP
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      They are truly, truly hella good.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Tank?

    • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works
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      I imagine it’s the vivarium kinda tank and not the big boom kinda tank

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        You guys made it to all, so I didn’t know if it was a growing tank, an outside tank like a birdhouse, a septic tank, a well water tank, an aquarium, and now a military tank that I hadn’t though of.

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          It was a military tank. A military funded, military grade fish tank. It was one of the two images below.

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    Were you feeding them or were they just eating what was available to them?

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      They were living in my tadpole hatching tank but I scooped a couple out when all the frogs were gone. I put a couple small fish in with them and I assume that they were also eating mosquito larvae at some point.

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    I found one of these wandering gliders a few days ago. They’re very pretty dragonflies.

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      👀💗

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