My name is Xanthocnemis and I'm a young a damselfly...
You might have seen my parents flying around streams and ponds.
They look like small dragonflies, but we can fold our wings back along our body
and the dumb old dragonflies always stick their wings out sideways. The three
things on my tail are gills and they help me breathe under the water.
While I'm young, I live in the water and I hide in the
water-plants. I catch and eat other insects in the water when they come too
close to me. I have to watch out for fish because they would find me really
yummy.
I don't mind if the water gets warm in summer but lots of other
kinds of stream insects and fish die if the sun shines on the water too much. If
we don't have any trees shading our streams and ponds, there won't be many
insects or fish sharing my home.
;void('');)
