Dragonflies are primarily eaten by insect-eating birds, frogs, big spiders and fish.To avoid being eaten, adult dragonflies will use their quickness and agility to out fly predators who are pursuing them and will also hide in vegetation if it is too cold for them to fly. Juvenile dragonflies will zoom away from predators that are after them but prefer to hide in vegetation to avoid being eaten.
Immature dragonflies exist in fresh water all throughout the world but thrive best in ponds or slow-moving streams that have no fish. Adult dragonflies prefer to live close to water but occasionally travel to open areas in order to hunt. Dragonflies benefit the environment because they assist in controlling the population of mosquitoes and other biting flies.Learn More
Bobcats, hawks and coyotes all eat roadrunners. These small birds only stand around 12 inches tall fully grown, making them an easy target for other animals in the desert.Full Answer >
Eagles belong to the class of bird known as raptors, which are a predatory class, meaning that eagles themselves are predators. Eagles are not usually on the diet of any animal, but their young or deceased eagles are sometimes eaten by other animals. For example, adult American bald eagles have no known natural predators thanks to their size, but their nests and eggs may be attacked by animals as small as squirrels.Full Answer >
Several species of ducks, geese, beavers and turtles, such as eastern painted turtles and common snapping turtles, eat duckweed. There are also several species of fish that eat duckweed, primarily grass-eating carp such as koi and grass carp, although grass carp will likely eat all other aquatic vegetation before moving on to duckweed.Full Answer >
Deer, rabbits and some insects eat ferns, while mice, the bullfinch and the short-tailed bat feed on fern spores. Scientists also believe that ferns made up the bulk of many species of dinosaurs' diets.Full Answer >