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re: The dragonfly is the most efficient / lethal predator in the animal kingdom
Posted on 9/8/25 at 7:19 pm to weagle1999
Posted on 9/8/25 at 7:19 pm to weagle1999
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The dragonfly is the most efficient / lethal predator in the animal kingdom
Too bad they don't eat them bastard lovebugs.
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Posted on 9/8/25 at 7:33 pm to weagle1999
Every so often we get large groups of dragonflies above the back acreage. I was watching them once and I noticed blue birds darting in and out of their group. I couldn't figure out whether the birds were eating the dragonflies or eating what the dragonflies were eating. So, I stared at a dragonfly for a while and then flit! it disappeared. Blue birds were eating the draganflies. Just amazing to watch.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 7:44 pm to jeffsdad
I snuck up on one sitting on a branch. nudged it with a stick, it flew and buzzed my head 5 seconds later. that was funny as hell. 
Posted on 9/8/25 at 7:54 pm to RazorBroncs
quote:love to see this kind of post. I’ve been steady planting wildflowers for a few years and the sheer number of predatory insects around now is astounding. Dozens of different wasps and yes tons of dragonflies. There’s a creek behind my house I assume they breed there and they patrol my beds all day.
RazorBroncs
the cost of doing business without pesticides is the occasional sting, but I’m good with it. Damn yellowjackets lit me up the other day but a long blast of the water hose took care of that
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:02 pm to weagle1999
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whether hunting mosquitoes, midges, flies, or other small insects.
I read that as "midgets" and had a chuckle.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:03 pm to weagle1999
Had one inside the house so I grabbed it to move it outside. The way it was positioned, I grabbed it by the tail and the little fricker bit my finger with his tiny dragon fly mouth. Got him outside and let him go. Pretty sure I heard a tiny voice say “frick you, bitch” before he flew off.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:04 pm to pussywillows
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My 2 personal favorites
Translated to Arkansan:
A red one and a yella one.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:10 pm to RazorBroncs
I’m sorry that you love them, but they have to die around my house. They’re too similar to hornets or other wasps and I’m not an ask questions kind of guy with such things.
They’re too similar to hornets or other wasps and I’m not an ask questions kind of guy with such things. Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:16 pm to RazorBroncs
Why are regular red wasps and those little orange a-hole guinea wasps not also "paper" wasps? Their nests look similar to the black and yellow ones we always called paper wasps, but man the little orange bastards are mean.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:23 pm to beerJeep
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Windshield 1
Dragonfly 0
1 Lizard
0 Dragonfly
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:24 pm to weagle1999
my favorite insect 
even did a term paper on it in high school.
even did a term paper on it in high school.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:26 pm to AGreySlate
Dragon flies are my favorite bug. No threat to me and they’ll even land on my hand or arm if I’m still enough sitting out by the pool. I think if them as my security detail for the bastard mosquitoes and encourage their presence.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:34 pm to jdaute2
They love the end of a fishing rod.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:36 pm to weagle1999
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Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:36 pm to weagle1999
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To put this in perspective, great white sharks successfully capture prey roughly 50% of the time, lions about 25%, and even the striking efficiency of cheetahs only reaches approximately 58%.
Those animals are all hunting animals with brains trying to evade death.
The dragon fly is eating stupid insects
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:38 pm to weagle1999
I used to stealthily catch them as a kid and make a dental floss leash for them.
Their heads are so cool
Their heads are so cool
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:39 pm to weagle1999
They're great predators at the larvae to the adult level. The larvae devour mosquito larvae. Unfortunately, the same poisons that people use on mosquitoes wipe out the dragonfly larvae.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:40 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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They love the end of a fishing rod.
I had a rod in the air with a cricket on a hook when fishing. I looked around and thought ‘Why is my cricket flying?’. A dragonfly was trying to rip it off the hook and fly away with it.
Posted on 9/8/25 at 8:46 pm to RazorBroncs
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I know this post is long, but this kind of stuff absolutely fascinates me and I hope it does for someone else.
Wasps are amazing, and we probably couldn't survive as a species without them. Most people think the world of wasps is just the ones they see building nests that occasionally sting them. There are thousands and thousands of wasp species, from the giant Cicada Killer to microscopic gall wasps, to parasitoids and hyperparasitoids that target caterpillars and even other wasp species.
I'm up to roughly 65 individual species identified on my property. I say "roughly" because many, many wasps have yet to he described. Narrowing them down to actual species is practically impossible. Hell, there are no telling how many species have yet to be discovered.
This post was edited on 9/8/25 at 8:49 pm
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