I knew that a larva of dragonfly lives in water but never knew what looks like.

On the way back from most places we go, we walk pass this ditch along the street of my parent`s apartment.

It has more water after rained and almost dried up after few days of sunny spell.

There are quite few wild life here as it`s got little bushes next to it, and here Viz found strange looking creatures in it. ( he literally groveled on the pavement and looks in to it often!) He knew they were larvae of dragonflies and he brought them back home.

Isn`t this ugly looking?

We put them in a plastic container with chopstick for them to climb out of water when they emerge.

The very next morning, we found a shell stuck on to the tank which Viz`s tortise is in!!

We wanted to see what kind of dragonfly will emerge, so we put a dome shaped mesh over the container.

But sadly the other two died in water.

We are not sure why, but probably the food we gave them(pellets for tortise as we thought they both eat simmiller thing) wasn`t good as lot of people say feeding these larvae are pain to feed as they like living(moving) creatures. That case, we need to sit down front of them and move their food around chopsticks or something untill they eat it!!!

Next door neighbor of the larvae, Viz`s turtle.

He is very greedy! Viz got some tadpoes from the same ditch he got Larvae of dragonfly and put them in the tank. They were about half size of this turtle so we thought they`ll be ok. But one by one they disappeared with out any trace!!

And after that Viz caught a frog from the ditch again, and put it in a tank......(we did warn him this time!)

Next morning we only saw frogs bits are floating mercilessly.....