Lots of dragon flies ?

[44 MAGNUM SHOOTER]

Has anyone noticed lots of dragon flies around lately? Went outside and there must be 100 flying around everywhere and I'm not even near water.

 

[gage]

Not hundred but I've seen more dragon flies this season than previous year. Most of the ones recently look like this:

 

[Eddie]

I think the heavy rains at the start of the summer gave us lots of mosquitoes. Dragonflies eat mosquitoes so now we have lots of dragonflies.

 

[451_Detonics]

They are harder to hit on the wing than the Cicada Killer Wasps are with a nice smoothbore 22...

 

[NordicHeathenVinlander]

I've seen alot.... In Areas where I've NEVER seen them... Very weird.

 

[King Matthew]

They are the worst around here on days when the air is very still and it is really hot and humid. Especially when I am mowing.

 

[Suprtek]

Yup. I've been noticing the same thing. Can those things bite or sting?

 

[Integraholic]

Harmless.

And those Cicada killer wasps are freaky.

 

[ruger1800]

They are harder to hit on the wing than the Cicada Killer Wasps are with a nice smoothbore 22...

why would you want to kill something that eats skeeters

 

[66chevelle]

Last night about 7 the wife and I were watching I would say between 50 and 75 flying all around out little yard pond. I usually see a couple but we could not believe the number of them that were out last night. I have also noticed a lot more baby frog or toads this year. I see a ton of them every night when I walk out to feed the cows.

 

[King Matthew]

I have some field tile on my downspouts on my polebarn. I swear I have a colony of frogs/toads living in them. Every time I walk past I have to pay attention so I am not stepping on any.

 

[Eddie]

why would you want to kill something that eats skeeters

When I was a kid, hitting a dragonfly with a bb gun was considered a feat of marksmanship.

 

[44 MAGNUM SHOOTER]

I had two fly inside my Jeep yesterday when I was cleaning it.. guess they wanted to help.

 

[44 MAGNUM SHOOTER]

When I was a kid, hitting a dragonfly with a bb gun was considered a feat of marksmanship.

It also got your BB gun taken away by mom too. eh? I know I got mine taken away more times than I shot it for shooting at birds.

 

[singlestacksig]

dragon flies breed in the same water as skeeters, but take longer.. the rains this year have allowed pools of water to stay around long enough for dragons to breed...

 

[Eddie]

It also got your BB gun taken away by mom too. eh? I know I got mine taken away more times than I shot it for shooting at birds.

Not really. I discourage my kids from killing animals for fun but the late 70's/early 80's were a different time and no one every told me that killing insects with a bb gun was wrong. Back then we went out into the woods and fields to shoot where there weren't any houses for thousands of yards. We'd shoot cans, bottles, bugs and water. Our parents did have a "no birds/dogs/cats/game animals/etc." rule that we followed but bugs weren't on the "no shoot" list.