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FAMILY LIBELLULIDAE - Skimmers
- This page contains information and pictures about Water Prince Dragonflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 50mm, wingspan 100mm
- This is a very large dragonfly
with strong but relatively short body. Its wings are much longer than its
body, so we expected the dragonfly is good at gliding flight and may be good
at long distance travel too. Its abdomen is black with yellow spots.
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  - Female, wingspan 100mm
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- We saw this Water Prince Dragonfly only a few times. First time the
dragonfly was laying
eggs alone on the Moolabin Creek in mid summer. We saw two times female laying eggs alone in a small pond near Mt-Coot-Tha Library in
early and mid
summer. After laying eggs she fly away and disappear.
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- We saw a few time the dragonfly rest on plants at water edge of Bulimba Creek in
Yugarapul
Park. They rested with body in vertical and abdomen slightly curved. They
like to rest about one to two meters from ground in an area under thick plants
covering.
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- Female lays
eggs when hovering and inserts the tip of her abdomen into the water with
plants and algae. We saw the eggs ball on her abdomen before she put them
under the water.
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 - Wings of Water Prince Dragonfly
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