How to Attract Dragonflies to a Garden
Imagine a garden full of beautiful flowers and dragonflies visiting you every day. Not only are they beautiful but they keep the mosquitoes away. With a little time and care, you can create a water garden that attracts these graceful creatures. Make your dream garden a reality by following these steps. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Buy a rubber pond or create a man made pond for your garden. Dragonflies need water to raise their young. Their offspring, nymphs, need the water to survive.
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Place your pond in a sheltered but somewhat sunny area. The pond needs sunlight, shade and shelter from the wind to maintain a balanced ecosystem.
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Keep the pond clean but not completely sterile. Dragonflies like natural ponds with a balanced ecosystem.
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Add water plants to the pond that grow out of the water. Infant dragonflies live among the plants. Then they use the plants to climb out of the water when they are ready to fly.
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Build a ledge of rocks or create a rock garden around your pond. Some dragonflies like sitting on the rocks.
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Plant trees, shrubs and long grass to create shade.
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Plant flowers around the pond. Although dragonflies don't need flowers to survive, flowers attract insects. Dragonflies eat insects.
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Tips & Warnings
Make sure the water in your pond is deep enough to keep wild animals from scooping up the infant dragonflies.
Be patient. It takes time to attract dragonflies to your garden.
Ponds will attract mosquitoes.
