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Dragonflies are the golden retrievers of insects.
Posted on 9/9/24 at 4:34 pm
Posted on 9/9/24 at 4:34 pm
Change my mind. Do dragonflies do ANYTHING except make you smile and wreck mites and other shitty biting insects?
here's to you, my humble dragonfly.
here's to you, my humble dragonfly.
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Posted on 9/9/24 at 4:36 pm to CAD703X
The one standing in the water has one helluva hog, huh?
Posted on 9/9/24 at 4:37 pm to CAD703X
Served as inspiration of the Villeneuve version of Dune ornithopters:
Posted on 9/9/24 at 4:42 pm to CAD703X
Told this story on Home/garden board couple years back…. Green dragonfly got stuck in my pool and couldn’t fly out for whatever reason. I took it out and put on the bricks to dry out. It recovered and flew away.
Next day I’m cutting grass and I look up and there’s a wasp directly in front of my face. Out of nowhere, a dragonfly flies up and starts attacking the wasp who flies away. The dragonfly then lands and sits right on top of my shoe.
Really cool experience. I’m sure it’s just random. Orrrrr… maybe it was the same dragonfly thanking me or he told his friends about me.
Tldr… yeah I like dragonflies too
Next day I’m cutting grass and I look up and there’s a wasp directly in front of my face. Out of nowhere, a dragonfly flies up and starts attacking the wasp who flies away. The dragonfly then lands and sits right on top of my shoe.
Really cool experience. I’m sure it’s just random. Orrrrr… maybe it was the same dragonfly thanking me or he told his friends about me.
Tldr… yeah I like dragonflies too
Posted on 9/9/24 at 4:43 pm to CAD703X
Hornets are pitbulls no doubt
Posted on 9/9/24 at 4:44 pm to CAD703X
My cur will sit out in the yard on summer days to chase dragonflies all day long
Posted on 9/9/24 at 4:46 pm to CAD703X
I don't know if it's true or not, but I saw a video where a person clipped a fake dragon fly on their cap and claimed it keeps mosquitos away. Who knows
Posted on 9/9/24 at 4:53 pm to habz007
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Told this story on Home/garden board couple years back…. Green dragonfly got stuck in my pool and couldn’t fly out for whatever reason. I took it out and put on the bricks to dry out. It recovered and flew away.
Next day I’m cutting grass and I look up and there’s a wasp directly in front of my face. Out of nowhere, a dragonfly flies up and starts attacking the wasp who flies away. The dragonfly then lands and sits right on top of my shoe.
Really cool experience. I’m sure it’s just random. Orrrrr… maybe it was the same dragonfly thanking me or he told his friends about me.
Tldr… yeah I like dragonflies too
i believe you baw
my son found a toad in the bushes in our front yard and brought the thing in and played with it all night and i made him put it back out before he went to bed.
From my mouth to God's ear, every evening for like a month when we pulled in at night that toad would come hopping out of the bushes.
he would play with it for a minute and then it would hop away.This post was edited on 9/9/24 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 9/9/24 at 5:05 pm to CAD703X
your picture is a damselfly, not a dragonfly...
Posted on 9/9/24 at 5:07 pm to BRich
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Served as inspiration of the Villeneuve version of Dune ornithopters:
Lol no shite
Posted on 9/9/24 at 5:09 pm to CAD703X
From 14 fun facts about dragonflies:
6 ) Dragonflies are expert fliers. They can fly straight up and down, hover like a helicopter and even mate mid-air. If they can’t fly, they’ll starve because they only eat prey they catch while flying.
7 ) Dragonflies catch their insect prey by grabbing it with their feet. They’re so efficient in their hunting that, in one Harvard University study, the dragonflies caught 90 to 95 percent of the prey released into their enclosure.
8 ) The flight of the dragonfly is so special that it has inspired engineers who dream of making robots that fly like dragonflies.
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11 ) Dragonflies, which eat insects as adults, are a great control on the mosquito population. A single dragonfly can eat 30 to hundreds of mosquitoes per day.
Smithsonian Magazine
6 ) Dragonflies are expert fliers. They can fly straight up and down, hover like a helicopter and even mate mid-air. If they can’t fly, they’ll starve because they only eat prey they catch while flying.
7 ) Dragonflies catch their insect prey by grabbing it with their feet. They’re so efficient in their hunting that, in one Harvard University study, the dragonflies caught 90 to 95 percent of the prey released into their enclosure.
8 ) The flight of the dragonfly is so special that it has inspired engineers who dream of making robots that fly like dragonflies.
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11 ) Dragonflies, which eat insects as adults, are a great control on the mosquito population. A single dragonfly can eat 30 to hundreds of mosquitoes per day.
Smithsonian Magazine
Posted on 9/9/24 at 5:11 pm to CAD703X
I was watching dragonflies one day when a flock of purple martins began to zoom in. It was pretty cool watching them seemingly disappear when the birds flew by snatching them up.
Posted on 9/9/24 at 5:13 pm to Twenty 49
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Dragonflies, which eat insects as adults, are a great control on the mosquito population. A single dragonfly can eat 30 to hundreds of mosquitoes per day.
they're all over my pond and when i'm trying to weed whack close to the edge they are up flying everywhere. i always give them time to move first.
Posted on 9/9/24 at 5:18 pm to papasmurf1269
My cur does the same thing. She can entertain herself for hours chasing them. She’ll swim around the pond all day yelping at them. I saw her catch one once. It puckered her up pretty good. Her expression reminded me of biting in to an astringent persimmon.
Posted on 9/9/24 at 5:20 pm to CAD703X
I used to love catching them and feeding them to my turtles.
Posted on 9/9/24 at 5:21 pm to CAD703X
I remember hearing this story about the dragonflies in New Orleans after Katrina struck and thought it was pretty cool:
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"On Tuesday dragonflies blanketed New Orleans, hovering just inches above the smelly floodwater, eating every mosquito in sight. Epidemiologists considered dragonflies -- called in backwoods areas, "The Devil's darning needles" -- an insatiable predator, one usually found in ponds and bayous. Contrary to the popular misperception, they don't bite or sting humans; in fact, they are as harmless as ladybugs. Female dragonflies lay their eggs (nymphs) in water or on floating plants. After Katrina, their eggs were deposited in the floodwater. Then aquatic larvae hatched. From then on, they started devouring mosquitos, dive-bombing them with aerial acrobatics that made the Coast Guard helicopters look clumsy by comparison. With a nearly 360-degree field of vision, can both stay stationary and soar to speeds of 60 mph (they are the fastest insects in the world).
Sometimes when a corpse was found floating around the streets of New Orleans, washed up against a chain-link fence or concrete wall, dragonflies hovered around the victim. Never did the dragonflies touch the flesh, hunting instead for maggots and fleas and mosquitoes, drawn to protect Katrina's victims just as they did its survivors."
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