there was a dragonfly trying to run into the windows at my work that got caught in a spider web in the process and it bit me when I was trying to save it >:(
googled to see if it was a bite or a sting and yep! the bloody bastard bit me, how rude.
Dragonflies do bite, and they will bite humans, but only if you catch one and it’s trying to escape or defend itself. And only the largest dragonflies will be able to break your skin anyway.
-has a 99% kill rate, higher than all other animals
-humans “it bites???”
no shade, just v funny to me
I was hiking with my grandson and the trail was post-rain and chock full of mosquitoes. We stopped for a breather and were talking face to face, our heads about a foot apart, mosquitoes everywhere. Just then a dragonfly slow flew right between our eyes and we both saw his “wing flutter” pulling tens of mosquitoes into his “wake” and just sucking them up like popcorn. It was cool to see.
Once as a kid I ran my hand through some leaves on a tree, and a large dragonfly clamped down on the fleshy part between the thumb and the index. I shook my hand violently and looked at it. Fucker’s whole body was torn off, but the head was still there, just biting me. Shook again and it was gone. Fucking traumatic.
I used to be pretty scared of dragonflies as a kid.
My older brother told me that the back part of their body was all stinger. He said if you piss them off they’ll sting you and the stinger can go in one side of your wrist and come out the other.
Scared the fucking shit out of me.
My older brother told me that the back part of their body was all stinger.
sounds like a big brother thing to say.
DYK dragonflies spend 50 to 80% of their lives as larvae swimming in water.
Where they eat mosquito larvae. Real MVPs there.
Dragonflies live their entire lives full of violence from birth to death. They don’t care about plants, and are constantly killing and eating other bugs and avoiding/getting eaten by all larger predators at every stage of their lives. They also eat hundreds of mosquitoes once airborne. It’s unfortunate that OP got bitten, but they’re absolutely incredible hunters that are on our side.
I used to live in Edmonton AB. And you could tell when the Dragon flies came out because the mosquito population would drop overnight.
They are gonna be drone sized this year.
They’re also possibly the most efficient hunter on the planet, capturing 95-97% of the prey they go after
I got bit by a dragon fly once, and I wasn’t threatening towards it in any way. I just stuck my finger out in the hope that one of the many dragon flies would land on it, and one did, and then the fucker bit me for no reason and flew off
“What a weird stick I just landed on, what is this made of? *bite* Oh shit, it’s an animal!” *flies away*
I’ve saved hundreds of these guys from drowning as a kid. They would dry off on me, look at me, somehow looked very grateful and then fly away.
I was never bitten and I have held so many. I love them. Good karma.
The ones you REALLY don’t want to fuck around with are Giant Water Bugs.
Anything with a mouth can technically bite. What’s even weirder is that dragonflies cannot walk in their adult form
I am fairly certain Ive seen many of them walk when drying off on me
An article would say that they have working legs but don’t walk well. But they can move around short distances by moving their legs, just not very well.
Look it up
Sounds like they looked at the source directly.
Then it wasn’t a dragonfly
Probably one of those dragonwalkers
Dragonfly-man? Worth it.
I got bitten by one as a youngster. Always had a healthy respect for them ever since.
https://youtu.be/wFAR3WggSRk without trackers
Thanks, I forgot to delete that.
