Their enhanced visual field and ability to detect movement help insects avoid predators and catch their prey. These sections come from an area on the top of the dragonfly’s eye called the functional ...

They will hide among the thick plants growing inside of your pond, helping them avoid predators. Creating a dragonfly-friendly pond poses the challenge of initially attracting mosquitoes ...

The mating ritual of the moorland hawker dragonfly—common around the ponds ... immobile state in an effort to discourage or ambush a predator is known as tonic immobility, death feigning ...