They usually drop to the ground and rot away or become fish food.
Thats their lifespans end when a freeze hits. There are more in the
waters in larvae stages that will be out come warm weather.


On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:44:49 -0600, Lar wrote:

Galen Hekhuis wrote:

We've had a "hard" freeze down here, the temperature got down into the high
20s. It killed most of the bugs that were flying around. So I was a bit
surprised to see a dragonfly buzzing over the pond. I can see a fly
crawling into some crevice, and I could imagine a butterfly folding its
wings and scooting into some little crack to survive. But I've never seen
a dragonfly fold its wings, it seems like it might need a somewhat bigger
space to survive. So where do these critters go when it gets cold?

Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA
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I believe the only cousin in that family to actually survive the cold
Winter as an adult is a damselfly found in Europe.

Lar



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