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Odonata is an order of flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies. Like most other flying insects (flies, beetles, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera), they evolved in the early Mesozoic era. Their prototypes, the giant dragonflies of the Carboniferous, 325 mya, are no longer placed in the Odonata but included in the Protodonata or Meganisoptera. The two common groups are easily distinguished with Dragonflies, placed in the suborder Epiprocta, usually being larger, with eyes together & wings up or out at rest, while Damselflies, suborder Zygoptera, are usually smaller with eyes placed apart & wings along body at rest. All Odonata have aquatic larvae called nymphs, and all of them, larvae and adults, are carnivorous. The adults can land, but rarely walk. Their legs are…

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