How to Use damselfly in a Sentence

damselfly

noun

• For more than a hundred million years, these three male damselflies have been waiting for their damsels.
  — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
• Bronzebacks might chase down a damselfly one minute, grab a cricket, or nail a skittering shiner the next.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• For some species of damselfly, egg laying is a difficult task.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• Pickerel frogs patrolled the damp fringes, and dragonflies and damselflies darted among the lily pads.
  — Murray Carpenter, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2016
• In any case, the eggs are laid in the water, which, contrary to most people's expectations, is where both dragonflies and damselflies spend most of their lives.
  — Ben Raines | [e-mail], AL.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Also, keep an eye peeled for fish slashing at damselflies or minnows skipping across the surface.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• That’s what happened to three 100-million-year-old male damselflies, which gave scientists a peek into the courtship behaviors of these ancient creatures.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017
• But the plantation damselflies had evolved no such resistance.
  — Jake Buehler, National Geographic, 31 May 2019
• That morning, near Marana, the group picked up rocks at the bottom of the river looking for insect larvae, swung nets to catch adult damselflies and learned how researchers measure population trends.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• Dragonflies and damselflies are carnivorous and eat a lot of small insects.
  — Jenny Krane, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2023
• Through hours of watching, Tiplea learned the behaviors of the damselflies, a close relative of dragonflies but with slimmer bodies and narrower wings.
  — Daniel Stone, National Geographic, 12 Dec. 2019
• This is a damselfly, an insect group closely related to dragonflies that have a dantier appearance.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2022
• Mating in modern damselflies and their close kin, the dragonflies, has been described as a complex mix of cooperation and conflict.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
• Ziegler observes butterflies and damselflies and bees that never descend to the ground, and dozens of species of birds: barbets, paradise tanagers, scarlet macaws that arrive in pairs, and fat, piping guans, which look like elegant turkeys.
  — Christian Ziegler, National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
• Near his childhood home in suburban Connecticut, Mr. Stager visits a local lily pond and reflects on dragonflies, damselflies and tadpoles.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• Her favorite species in southeastern Wisconsin are the double-striped bluet damselfly and widow skimmer dragonfly.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
• This contradicts many scientific models that suggested global warming would doom predator-prey species such as the damselfly.
  — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 30 Apr. 2023
• Wim Vooijs cleverly reduced a damselfly to a series of shimmering light circles to win the Butterflies & Dragonflies category.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• But Yee points out that other, medically relevant mosquitoes have predators similar to damselflies.
  — Jake Buehler, National Geographic, 31 May 2019
• But damselfly larvae—a major predator of larval mosquitoes—were conspicuously missing from the plantations.
  — Jake Buehler, National Geographic, 31 May 2019
• Through macro and micro photography, come explore the captivating world of local dragonfly and damselfly fauna including their anatomy, life history, behaviors and diversity.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024