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Globe Skimmer
Happy Dragonfly Thursday!
The Globe Skimmer, also called The Wandering Glider or Rainpool Glider is the world’s most widely distributed dragonfly being found in the tropics as well as in temperate zones. It breeds on every continent except Europe and Antarctica and is found all around the world. In India - it is called the Onathumbikal. This species flies almost constantly and drifts with the wind as it feeds. It flies thousands of miles over oceans and because of its characteristic gliding flight, its common name is the Globe Skimmer or Wandering Glider. It can be seen flying almost anywhere in open country, sometimes in great numbers. They rarely perch but at sea they have been known to land on ships far away from land.
The color of the thorax and tapered abdomen of both sexes is orangish to light brown with long, broad and clear wings. The small dark area on the tip of the hind-wing is distinctive.
The Wandering Glider feeds mainly on insects and small crustaceans. Of distinct advantage to humans is that both the larvae and the adult are great hunters and often eat a lot of insect pests, including mosquitoes. Their main predators are fish.
"Every year, millions of dragonflies fly thousands of kilometers across the sea from southern India to Africa."
2 interesting articles on this newly discovered migration related to this dragonfly!
news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8149000/8149714...
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1200054/Longest-i...
Globe Skimmer
Happy Dragonfly Thursday!
The Globe Skimmer, also called The Wandering Glider or Rainpool Glider is the world’s most widely distributed dragonfly being found in the tropics as well as in temperate zones. It breeds on every continent except Europe and Antarctica and is found all around the world. In India - it is called the Onathumbikal. This species flies almost constantly and drifts with the wind as it feeds. It flies thousands of miles over oceans and because of its characteristic gliding flight, its common name is the Globe Skimmer or Wandering Glider. It can be seen flying almost anywhere in open country, sometimes in great numbers. They rarely perch but at sea they have been known to land on ships far away from land.
The color of the thorax and tapered abdomen of both sexes is orangish to light brown with long, broad and clear wings. The small dark area on the tip of the hind-wing is distinctive.
The Wandering Glider feeds mainly on insects and small crustaceans. Of distinct advantage to humans is that both the larvae and the adult are great hunters and often eat a lot of insect pests, including mosquitoes. Their main predators are fish.
"Every year, millions of dragonflies fly thousands of kilometers across the sea from southern India to Africa."
2 interesting articles on this newly discovered migration related to this dragonfly!
news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8149000/8149714...
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1200054/Longest-i...