closer look at Canada's Odonates Those fascinating dragonflies
and damselflies Anyone that canoes or hikes in areas where there
are numerous ponds and lakes has met up with dragonflies or
damselflies. My first experiences with these creatures were as a
child. I remember sitting at the edge of the pond with my Dad
watching the "helicopters" and how fascinated I was with them.
damselflies are part of an order of insects that is over 300
million years old, odonata. There are more than 5000 members of
the Odonata order throughout the world and many of these can be
found in Canada. There are 85 recorded species and 9 families of
odonata in Algonquin is the difference between dragonflies and
damselflies? Well the most prominent difference is the wings.
Dragonflies are from a suborder named anisoptera and their wings
are horizontal and at a right angle to insect's body. Anisoptera
fully open their wings. The suborder zygoptera or damselflies
hold their wings behind their bodies and they only open their
wings part wa