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Wandering Glider (male)
Pantala flavescens
22.5531, 88.374
Field Notes
Description:
Medium size reddish/orangish dragonfly. Here it is a male. Brown head, yellowish thorax, yellow legs, clear wing with red/orange coloured wing-spot and red/orange abdomen.
Habitat:
Different types of natural and artificial waterbodies, wetlands. It was seen on a grass near a puddle in a grassy, marshy land.
Notes:
The Wandering Glider is also called the Globe Skimmer or the Globe Wanderer named for its migrating behaviour. It is a dragonfly known as the world’s longest distance insect traveller. It is also the highest flying dragonfly, recorded at over 6,000 metres in the Himalayas.
It is one of the most skilled aerial ambush predators of the insect kingdom, intercepting its prey mostly in mid-air using its feet. To avoid the prey escaping, it’ll rip the wings off mosquitoes, termites, beetles, even butterflies and sometimes off other dragonflies. A large adult dragonfly is capable of feeding on over 1,000 mosquitoes a day.
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