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As predators, both help keep populations of other insects in check. They reduce the numbers of mosquitoes and other potentially harmful insects by aggressively feeding on them. Dragonflies and damselflies are also indicators of a healthy environment because they require good-quality water for their larvae to develop.
“Their aerial agility and vivid colors make them easily noticed on sunny summer days,” notes an article on London’s Museum of Natural History, “but few people will have looked beyond the flash of blue, red, green or yellow to consider the lives of dragonflies.”
Some time ago, local arborist and educator Lyt Wood was inspired to do just that. But it wasn’t until March of last year that he began what turned out to be a “rather intense study” of Rappahannock County’s dragonflies and damselflies: “What started out as a rather vague inspiration quickly became an obsession. I took every
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