In Carboniferous forests dragonflies grew as big as ravens.

在石炭纪的森林里，蜻长到大得像乌鸦。

Different species of dragonflies can be found near the lake.

靠近潮的地方可以发现各种不同的蜻蜒。

They are the young stage of dragonflies predators that feed on worms and tadpoles.

它们是蜻的幼虫，以蠕虫和蝌蚪为食的掠食者。

The eyes of a dragonfly consists of 20,000 tiny telescopes packed together.

蜻的眼睛由20万微小的单眼排在一起构成。

During prehistoric times, two-foot dragonflies did exist, because atmospheric oxygen levels were higher.

在史前时代，因为大气中的氧气含量较高，所以两英尺长的蜻确实存在。

Some insects, such as dragonflies, are nimble enough to cope with the creeping change.

一些昆虫，如蜻，足够灵活，可以应对缓慢的变化。

And dragonfly larvae use their butts like aquatic jetpacks.

蜻幼虫把它们的臀部当成水上喷气背包使用。

Dragonflies were the size of hawks, while some spiders were the size of small birds.

蜻的体型和鹰一样大，有些蜘蛛的体型堪比鸟类。

Luckily, dragonflies are territorial insects, which always come back on their favorite perch.

幸运的是，蜻有自己的领地总是回到自己最喜欢的栖处。

The volunteers used dip nets to collect dragonfly larvae from their aquatic abodes.

志愿者们使用水中采集网从它们生活的水上栖息地收集蜻幼虫。

And in the case of the dragonfly, that's interception.

就蜻而言，那就是拦截。

But freshwater insects, such as dragonflies and mosquitoes, have been growing in number over the years.

但是淡水昆虫，如蜻和蚊子，其数量在过去的几年里一直在增长。

Dragonflies and swallows and nighthawks seine the air where the minute winged creatures flit out their minute life spans.

蜻、燕子和夜鹰在天空中像围网似地捕食，而极小的有翼动物在空中轻快地飞来飞去，顷刻间其想暂的生命便结束了。

Dragonflies are the most highly perfected flying machine you can see on this planet.

蜻是整个地球上最完美的飞行机器。

That's right, Don. Yael, that's nonsense. Making a prediction would involve trigonometry. Dragonflies don't know trigonometry.

没错啊，老唐。 瑶瑶，这就胡扯了。做出预判需要三角学的知识，蜻可不懂什么三角学。

This is what my movements probably look like to the dragonfly, giving him lots of time to escape.

我的动作在蜻看来很可能就是这样的它逃走的时间很充分。

In essence, your and my umwelt fundamentally differs from the umwelt of a mosquito or a dragonfly.

从本质上讲，你我的环境世界本质上与蚊子或蜻的不同。

So when dragonflies are hunting, they do more than just fly straight at the prey.

因此，当蜻捕食时，它们所做的不仅仅是直接飞向猎物。

These are ongoing experiments in which we put living dragonflies in virtual reality.

这些是正在进行的实验，我们将活体蜻放在虚拟现实中。

Dragonflies have pretty much the best compound eyes out there with around 30,000 of those little units per eye.

蜻拥有最好的复眼，每只眼睛大约有 30000 个这样的小单位。