I was jogging once, young deerflies were following me, landing on my head constantly, forgot a hat. For like 4 miles, just constant, until I passed a pond, and the dragonflies came out, zipped around me, no more flies.
They are really cool, unfortunately, their whatchacallit, life in the water, they target tadpoles too, which themselves are the greatest destroyer of parasitic insect larvae. They are malicious looking too, they’ve a spear of sorts they impale their victims on. Cool to watch if a bit macabre.
They don’t follow their prey, they anticipate their movements, which is singular as far as we know. Their flying ability is second to none, and their vision incredible, they’ve way more eyes than flies and the like which have hundreds, I forget.
Their sex is weird, they join and fuck in the air. A male that finds a female already fucked will grab her, it has a scoop it uses to remove the semen of the previous male, and then mates, in the air, can’t recall the name for it at the moment.
Dragonflies are the highest success rate in the animal Kingdom at 95%.
I always forget about them! Go, dragonflies!
I was jogging once, young deerflies were following me, landing on my head constantly, forgot a hat. For like 4 miles, just constant, until I passed a pond, and the dragonflies came out, zipped around me, no more flies.
They are really cool, unfortunately, their whatchacallit, life in the water, they target tadpoles too, which themselves are the greatest destroyer of parasitic insect larvae. They are malicious looking too, they’ve a spear of sorts they impale their victims on. Cool to watch if a bit macabre.
Sounds like I need to do some more learning on dragonflies… 🤔
They don’t follow their prey, they anticipate their movements, which is singular as far as we know. Their flying ability is second to none, and their vision incredible, they’ve way more eyes than flies and the like which have hundreds, I forget.
Their sex is weird, they join and fuck in the air. A male that finds a female already fucked will grab her, it has a scoop it uses to remove the semen of the previous male, and then mates, in the air, can’t recall the name for it at the moment.
Wow, they know how to live a wild and crazy life! I know they can play dead if they don’t want to mate.