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Not all Taiwanese dragonflies grow up in water: study
By Su Meng-chuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Taiwanese researchers have discovered that the larvae of some domestic dragonflies live on land instead of in water, in the first-ever study of its type in Taiwan.
The study, published as part of the 2021 volume of the
International Journal of Odonatology, was conducted after a series of unusual larvae of the species
Cephalaeschna risi were discovered three years ago in Yilan County.
Immature dragonflies, also known as instars, are tiny predators that hunt tadpoles, mosquito larvae and other small prey in rivers and creeks, said Hu Fang-shuo (胡芳碩), the study’s first author and a student of entomology at National Chung Hsing University.
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