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Granite Ghost
Bradinopyga geminata
16.4206, 74.3763
Field Notes
Description:
A medium sized grey dragonfly with brown eyes. Grey thorax and abdomen is peppered with black, white and light grey.
Habitat:
Adults are common along small pools of water or small stagnant water bodies nearby agricultural fields. They also breed in wells, tanks, drums, rainy hollows in the rocks and invariably settling with wings flattened on the granite face, with which their marbled grey coloured body harmonies to such an extent that they become practically invisible.
Notes:
The 'Granite Ghost' is actually so effective as a predator that some cities in Thailand encouraged their breeding habits, consequentially reducing the population of the Aedes mosquito (bearer of multiple fevers) significantly.
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PublishedOctober 15, 2014
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