Dragon flies

gmccool · Sep 3, 2010

I was out checking on a couple corn fields today & noticed a lot more dragon flies than I usually see. Has anyone noticed this or was it just me. Gerald

Bob N.Y. · Sep 3, 2010

I remember them being plentiful back in the 1960s and 70s. Seems like they almost disappeared for awhile, but have making a rebound the last few years.

Maine Fordson · Sep 3, 2010

I was scared of them when I was a very small child, but now realize that dragonflies are good to have around -- they eat mosquitoes. And the more mosquitoes they eat, the fewer mosquitoes bite me!

IOWA NORTHEAST · Sep 3, 2010

Real close to the 4 th of July our town was overtaken by them for just one evening. They were so plentyful the video camers could capture the massive numbers. No on in our town has ever seen anything remotley like it before.

Like I said, one evening, and they were gone. a few other towns had the same thing on the same night.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 3, 2010

Large numbers of then flying around me when cutting hay this time.

john in la · Sep 3, 2010

Suppose to be a good year for them.
an early spring
lots of flooded areas
bumper crop of mosquitoes

By the way.....
If you ever venture to the deep south leave the words Dragon Fly at home. We call them Mosquito hawks.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 3, 2010

There was a swarm of dragon flies in Goodland KS two weeks ago, there had to be many 1000s.

msb · Sep 3, 2010

Same here in central In. Never saw so many in all my 71 years.

Fordfarmer · Sep 3, 2010

Here in N/W WI too. Many times as many as I've seen before. Big ones, too. Often have smaller ones fly into the cab while I'm baling.

Gary from Muleshoe · Sep 3, 2010

In TX they are so big we use them for crop dustin'.

RODGEinIL · Sep 3, 2010

Last week there were hundreds of them around the yard, just started swarming around, about two feet off the grass about sundown. Must of been insects coming outta the grass, mosquitos I guess, barn swallows were up above cleaning out the ones that escaped! Pretty cool!

Goose · Sep 3, 2010

Tens of thousands around our house a couple of evenings about a month ago.

PJH · Sep 3, 2010

We've had a good crop of Dragon Flies this year.

Some old timers call them "Snake Doctors".
Don't know where that name came from.

I noticed the usual large flock of purple martins/ barn swallows that flew over the fields while I was making hay this summer.

It puzzled me that they didn't seem interested in the many Dragon Flies that were swarming all over the field.

Paul

Dutchman · Sep 3, 2010

They make a BIG mess on a windshield ...

Mark

TGIN · Sep 4, 2010

They have been working for us for several yrs. now . In the evenings the nats sometimes get so bad you have to go inside but then the dragon flys come out and in a half hour you can go back out .

DJM75 · Sep 4, 2010

they are the foremost predator of the mosquito and there are alot of them this year so.

DownSouth · Sep 4, 2010

And sometimes they land and leave their mark.

And you thought crop circles were odd.......

greenbeanman in Kansas · Sep 4, 2010

The newsletter linked below has a really good article on dragonflies. Starts about 2/3rds of the way down the page. Good and interesting reading and puts to rest a lot of misinformation about them.

When you see the large bunches of them they are probably migrating.
Kansas State University newsletter

Dragon flies

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