{"id":1814,"date":"2016-04-05T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2018-01-14T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T16:50:36","slug":"dragonflies-damselflies-and-multi-layer-mosquito-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/dragonflies-damselflies-and-multi-layer-mosquito-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonflies damselflies and multi-layer mosquito defense :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How big is a dragonfly _egg_?\u00a0 How big is the baby dragonfly larvae that hatches from that egg? The dragonfly larvae in my palm above looks as though it should have come out of the movie Aliens. But when it started life it was smaller than a grain of sand. It has gone through several molts to get to the size it is. How big is a damselfly larvae?<\/p>\n

If one adds any type of fish to a pond without providing habitat for the baby dragonflies and damselflies you will be removing the mosquito predators instead of the mosquitoes from the environment.<\/p>\n

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Vector control, by encouraging mosquito fish practically guarantees themselves a perpetual job.\u00a0 Did you know that the Pacific chorus frog _tadpoles_ actually eat a lot of mosquito larvae? And the adult frogs eat a lot of mosquitoes too, but…<\/p>\n

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