The Pool

Cattails:
Latin Name: typha latifolia
Characteristics: Is over 2 m tall and has long, large leaves with a brown 'cigar' at the end of the stem.
Habitat: Lives on waterfronts in very nutrient-rich conditions.
Reproduction: Through the rhizomes in the plant, the cattail is able to multiply quickly and establish itself at the water's edge.
Fun fact: The cattail is not poisonous. You can boil or bake them and then eat them. The long soft spike is used as a cleaning brush. The fluff from the cattail is used to fill pillows and duvets.

Duckweed:
Latin Name: Lemna
Characteristics: The leaves are usually green and can turn reddish-purple. Duckweed forms a green carpet on the water.
Habitat: You can find duckweed in pools.
Flower: ij has no flowers. The leaves resemble a 3-leaf clover.
Reproduction: Duckweed reproduces with seeds.
Fun fact: Duckweed is an aquatic plant. The leaves float on the water. Duckweed removes contamination from the water.

Frog:
Latin Name: rana
Characteristics: The frog is an amphibian. She lives both on water and on land.
Biotope: Pools.
Food: It eats all kinds of insects, crickets, spiders, and snails.
Threat - enemies: Due to the many polluted pools, the frog is endangered.
Defense: Natural enemies of the frog include large birds, snakes, hedgehogs, and other frogs.
Fun fact: There are frogs that can live up to 30 years.

Skater:
Latin Name: gerris lacustris
Features: Skaters have a length of 10-17 mm. The middle and hind legs are clearly longer than the body. They are spread crosswise on the water surface. The short front legs along the body curve outwards at an angle.
Biotope: Pond
Food: The food consists of small animals that fall into the water and cannot swim. Examples are small beetles and flies, but also small aquatic insects that come up to breathe, such as mosquito pupae. Amphibian larvae are also eaten.
Threat - Enemies: Enemies of the skaters are fish and the shore spider.
Defense: When skaters are being chased, they make jumps out of the water.
Fun fact: Skaters hunt in groups. Large prey are attacked together. Skaters are animals that 'skate' on the water. If a skater goes underwater, he drowns.

Watercress:
Latin Name: rorippa
Habitat: The plant grows on and in the water of streams, ditches, ponds and swamps.
Characteristics: Is a limp plant that can grow to a height of 10 to 16 cm.
Flower: White flowers
Fun fact: Watercress is often used in cooking.

Dragonfly:
Latin Name: Libellulla
Characteristics: A dragonfly is winged and the wings have different colors.
Habitat: Pools, puddles and ponds
Food: The dragonfly eats mosquitoes, flies, moths ... Sometimes they also catch larger insects such as butterflies.
Threat - enemies: The dragonfly is eaten by frogs and birds.
Defense: The dragonfly can fly fast. Her wings work like a helicopter.
Fun fact: Dragonflies can't sting. They don't have a stinger like wasps. They do have strong jaws, but they can't penetrate human skin.

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