Biodiversity Group Insect of the Month: The Dragonfly
There are about 6000 named dragonflies in the world and Britain has approximately 40 of these. Dragonflies have a head, thorax, abdomen and exoskeleton. The head is large with short antennae and dominating it are 2 compound eyes made up of thousands of 6-sided units. Together these smaller eyes enable it to see, colour, ultra…