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Best Answer: Different flies dine on different foods. Flies around the world eat nectar, plant sap, blood, other insects, and decaying matter. Did you know that a mosquito is actually a type of fly? Of the species of flies that eat blood, only the females are the blood eaters.
A dragonfly will eat roughly 15% of its own body weight in prey each day, and larger species can easily consume much more than that. Most dragonflies capture their prey in flight, plucking live insects right out of the air.