On Aug 16, 8:19*pm, Giles wrote:

Everyone knows that birds migrate. *With all the publicity that
Monarch butterflies have gotten in recent years, pretty much everybody
knows about their migrations by now, too, I suppose. *What most people
don't know (largely because most people know virtually nothing about
them.....and don't care), even most people who enjoy various outdoor
activities in more or less wild settings, is that dragonflies migrate
as well. *Well, some of them do; roughly 250 of the roughly 5000 known
species worldwide.

[snip of good stuff about dragonflies]

Nice, Wolfgang, thanks. Funny but I have always been a fan of
dragonflies. I remember one evening watching dozens of them cavort
outside my window while I was listening to John Coltrane. Damn things
seemed to be flying in time with the song I was listening to ("Afro-
Blue" from _Live at Birdland_). I love watching them come out when
I've just finished mowing the lawn. I guess I stir up small bugs as I
mow, and they just come in and clean up.

In fact, this last Sunday was the first time I've seen them this
year. So even as far as it is (in all possible senses) from Texas to
Cheeselandia, the dragons are out here too.


Chuck Vance (who calls groups of dragonflies "squadrons" for
self-evident reasons)