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Dragonfly Research Paper

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Dragonfly larvae are main aquatic predators that habitually eat tadpoles and this has strained the tadpoles to come up with devious defence strategies. The tadpoles of leopard frogs will speed up their maturation if they are in a pond with dragonfly larvae. Other species of tadpoles hide or develop ornamentations on their tails to trick the dragonfly larvae into outstanding at less vulnerable parts of their bodies. Dragonfly larvae might be the tigers of the water-weed jungle, but they were not thought to harass (defend, harass, defeat, frighten) adult

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