Dragon flies are neat to shoot with shot shells ina handgun like a .38
special.........those little suckers just disentergrate or dive into
the water or ground likje an airplane that got shot down. NOt quite as
neat as when you make a direct hit on a heron with a shotgun thats
about 100 feet up and does a giant swan dive, but neat just the same.


On Sun, 28 May 2006 23:16:35 -0700, ~ janj
wrote:
I was sitting out back at my (getting rather small, we haven't had much
rain) pond this afternoon and watched the dragonflies. There are oodles of
them that hang out around here, green ones, blue ones, speckled ones, a
bunch of different kinds and sizes. Some of the green ones would fly
underneath my chair and around me keeping the air as free of biting bugs as
any repellent I have ever used. It was sort of like having my own little
insect air force to protect me. As I sat and looked out over the pond,
however, there was one and only one dragonfly flying. It was big and it
was red. It would patrol over the pond, and then when it wanted to rest it
flew up to a nearby pine tree. Other dragonflies would start to hover over
the pond, and then the red one would leave it's perch and dive and chase
the other dragonflies until they left. Then it would patrol over the pond
for a bit, and then go back up into the pine tree. Other dragonflies would
start to hover over the pond again, and the red dragonfly came out of the
tree to chase them away again. This happened over and over, and this isn't
the first day, either. Are all dragonflies like this, or do I just have an
obnoxious bully at my pond?
Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA

Hmmm, I'll have to pay more attention, I've noticed a lot of empty
body-parts from dragonflies emerging lately. Another good reason not to
totally muck out the pond out in spring. I'm still waiting for the first
shovel full of dirt to get moved on the incoming filter for the lily pond.
~ jan
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