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Straddling the Arctic Circle in Alaska is the 1.6 million acre Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, home to both impressive dragonflies and dazzling damselflies! The Refuge is one of the top areas for dragonfly diversity, with 26 documented species thanks to the abundant wetlands that support them. Here, both damselflies and dragonflies spend the majority of their lives under water where they predate on aquatic insects—and occasionally small fish. Adults only get a handful of weeks to months of flyi