In the height of summer, the female leads her huddle of ducklings to the banks of the pond, where they can eat their fill of mosquito larvae from the water and little dragonflies and mayflies from the aquatic plants, and even snap mosquitoes and gnats out of the air.
仲夏季節，鴨媽媽與小鴨依依偎偎來到池邊，盡情享受蚊子幼蟲，及依附在水生植物上的小蜻蜓、蜉蝣、乃至空中的蚊蚋。