I was at the park today with my kids and actually managed to catch several dragonflies. I'm thinking about trying to breed them and was curious if anyone has any experience. Any advice you can give would be great, thanks.
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I always wanted to, but never took the step, The lake in front of the house always had many varieties of the and the damsel flies, I love their eyes.
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No way! I just looked up a video of a dragon fly life cycle! When they are in there aquatic larval stage, they are like aquatic mantises!
Check out the video I just watched!
Check out the video I just watched!
Nice video. I watched this one earlier, they are basically crazy mantids. https://youtu.be/knlXTU1R_rE
After doing a bit of research I'm pretty sure I have three of the damsel flies (2 males and 1 female). Im also pretty sure I need to get off my butt and start digging out my pond and start getting serious. Not sure if I can do this small scale but maybe with a big ol pond I can do it. Either way I'm trying it small for now.
After doing a bit of research I'm pretty sure I have three of the damsel flies (2 males and 1 female). Im also pretty sure I need to get off my butt and start digging out my pond and start getting serious. Not sure if I can do this small scale but maybe with a big ol pond I can do it. Either way I'm trying it small for now.
I didn't mean to make it sound difficult to breed and raise them. I meant that breeding them may be as raising the nymphs is easy. If you have a suitable pond they will do it for you. My lab raises tadpoles for research purposes and preventing dragonflies from laying their eggs in the tanks is always a challenge. You could probably get a 300 gallon stock tank and you may get all the dragonflies you want.
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Not sure if a stagnant pond will work, prob have mosquitos thought.
I think I have to do a stagnant pond. My original intent was a frog pond so having moving water and pumps was a big no no. I think the most important thing is depth. From what I've read, water has to be deep enough during the winter tadpoles and dragon fly nymphs won't freeze. Which I intend to go big and deep. I have a big chunk of land I may as well go big,right? And lol Rick that makes me very hopeful that I will get over run. And I'm kinda hoping for mosquito's, both the nymphs and frogs love them.
