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
• 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: 2 Sep 2024