Dragonflies serve as food for many different aquatic species and amphibians, birds, and even mammals. Fish, frogs, newts, and other larger aquatic creatures eat the dragonfly nymphs. Adult dragonflies are food for birds, lizards, bats, and even spiders!

Who eats them? Just about everything. Birds, especially the more acrobatic fliers such as flycatchers, swallows, kingfishers, falcons and kites, eat countless dragonflies, while spiders, praying mantids, robber flies and even early-emerging bats will dine on dragonflies as well.

Although they are predators themselves, dragonflies are often hunted by snakes, lizards, birds, frogs, fish and other animals or they may even fall prey to other insects including larger dragonflies. They are often caught in mid-air by birds.

But dragonflies are nature’s most successful predator when it comes to catching prey, scientists have revealed. Dragonflies eat mosquitoes and other small insects such as flies, bees, ants and wasps, as well as the occasional butterfly, which they hunt around marshes, lakes, ponds, streams and wetlands.

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The three most difficult pests to exterminate are:

• Termites.
• Bed Bugs.
• Cockroaches.

The Top 10 Most Terrifying Insects

• Puss Moth Caterpillar.
• Goliath Birdeater.
• Giant Weta.
• Assassin Bug.
• Titan Beetle.
• Giant Centipede.
• Tarantula Hawk. With a max length of 2 inches, the tarantula hawk may not be the largest insect on the list but it is certainly one of the gutsiest.
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Some researchers believe insects are terrifying mainly because their physical forms are so unlike our own — skeletons outside their bodies, a skittery way of moving, too many legs and too many eyes.

The Most Beautiful Insect: Widely accepted to be the Sunset Moth from Malagasy (Madagascar), a day-flying moth of rainbow colors.

During all the encounters that you’ve had with animals like houseflies, ants, cockroaches, and spiders, we’re sure you’ve wondered: Do bugs feel pain? Here’s the quick answer: Yes, they do. So, just like all other animals, bugs suffer when they’re poisoned, squished, trapped, left to die, or killed in other ways.

If you’re just killing it because you think it’s “gross”, or you’re spraying it with hairspray to see it squirm, or anything like that, then yes, it’s immoral. Killing things just for the sake of killing them is wrong.

Do Insects Fart? (They Sure Do!) Some insects do, anyway. In fact, some of them pass an enormous amount of gas. When people talk about farts, they are normally referring to flatus, which is defined as gas that is produced in the intestines and released from the anus.

Why do bugs always seem to die on their backs? This is a matter of physics. As the bug nears death, normal blood flow ceases, causing the legs to contract inwardly. Without the support of the legs, the body becomes top-heavy, and usually falls upside-down.

Insects are attracted towards natural light from window perceiveing it as way to get out. The wire mesh or glass however prevent them to succeed. Sustained efforts over a time finish off reserve body fat and they die exhausted. This is the reason we see dead insects on window sills.

The most common explanation for why bugs die on their backs is something called the “position of flexion.” When a bug is dead or dying, it cannot maintain tension in its leg muscles and naturally falls into a state of relaxation.