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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2005-08-26 07:52 pm

Your cheatin' ... mandibles?

Standing in the crowd, listening to Danu at the music festival, I noticed a squadron of dragonflies working the airspace for mosquitoes. And I thought, "Isn't that 'shooting over a baited field?'"

[identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I call it "hunting in a target-rich environment". Go dragonflies!

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No -- _Stay_, dragonflies!

And these were the B-52 versions, late-summer skeeter-muncher monsters. Judging by direct comparison out at the nature center, some of them get as big as the hummingbirds.