Bluespot Ray & Green Darner

Bluespot Ray and Green Darner are both colorful predators They dream of visiting ponds, creeks, rivers, lakes, oceans, hand sinks and bath tubs.

Tell about their water experiences with words or a photo!

Whenever these buddies come across water of some kind, we want to hear about it. Share information about the water's temperature, area, volume , speed, depth, colour, smell, taste or feeling.

Green likes aquatic insects, tadpoles, aquatic worms, and small fish. These dragonflies migrate to the south in the fall. Their offspring migrate north again in the spring.

Some dragonflies can travel very long distances, like birds. Globe Skimmer dragonflies Pantala flavescens (also called Wandering Gliders) were discovered to have the longest insect migration route recorded so far - a roundtrip flight between India and Africa with stopovers in the Maldives and the Seychelle islands. In all, this incredible circuit would cover a total distance of 14,000-18,000 km, with 3,500 km over the open ocean, and would span possibly four generations of dragonflies.

Ray likes mollusks, worms, shrimps, and crabs.
The blue-spotted stingray has a less impressive migration than the dragonflies. They migrate to the shallow waters during high tide, to find food. When the tide is low, they swim back to the deeper waters to hide in caves or under ledges.

Read more about Ray and his family on http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=320
Read more about Green and his family on http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/green_darner.htm