13/03/2026
Species: Damselflies
Location: South America, Brazil, Colombia and South East Asia
Common Name: Damselflies
Often mistaken for their more robust cousins, the dragonflies, damselflies belong to the suborder Zygoptera. They are some of the most elegant aerial predators in the insect world, acting as tiny, iridescent fighter jets of the wetlands.
Their eyes are made up of nearly 30,000 individual lenses (ommatidia). They can see in almost every direction at once, except for a tiny blind spot directly behind their head