Western Pondhawk

Western Pondhawks are voracious predators and will prey on dragonflies their size and even other Western Pondhawks (Nikula et al. 2002). They will also eat almost any soft-bodied flying insect including mosquitoes, flies, small moths, mayflies, and flying ants or termites. The larvae feed on a wide variety of aquatic insects, such as mosquito larvae, other aquatic fly larvae, mayfly larvae, and freshwater shrimp. They will also eat very small fish and tadpoles.