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To: orkrious who wrote (35876)	7/13/2005 9:28:14 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

If a dragonfly came after you, you are really in trouble. Have you experienced a shrinking feeling? Are you growing diaphanous wings? <g> These large, slender insects typically ¾" - 1" long, have evolved as specialized hunters. They depend on their eyes for hunting food and can focus on objects 20 feet away. The eyes are enormous -- ½ circles composed of two sections: one looks up for danger; one looks down for prey. Each eye is made up of up to 28,000 lenses which touch or nearly touch at the top of the large head. These eyes allow it to see better than any other insect. Always hunting for food, they scoop their prey into a basket formed by their spiny out-spread legs while in flight. It then eats its prey by ripping pieces off and chewing them while flying. The dragonfly eats up to 600 insects a day. Other than catching food with its legs, it can only use them to cling to objects such as twigs and grasses while resting. It cannot walk. Dragonflies, a/k/a darning flies, do not bite and cannot "sew anything". They are sometimes called mosquito hawk because they eat so many mosquitoes. They also eat gnats and flies.