On Aug 18, 4:32*pm, D. LaCourse wrote:


We I was a kid we called dragon flies draning needles and the "word"
was that they could sew your lips together. *(I'll wait for the
comeback on that one! *d;o) *) *They are a good fly on the Rapid and I
have taken some nice brookies with a blue one with spinner type wings.

There are probably some regional variations, but in my experience,
"darning needles" seems typically to refer not to dragonflies so much
as to damselflies.....a distinction that is probably lost on most
people since they don't seem to be aware of the difference. The
"blue" ones (which I distinctly remember as "darning needles" from my
childhood) are mostly members of the genus Ischnura, many of whose
common names are one or another kind of "bluet." Damsels, even as
compared to dragons, have an exceptionally long and slender abdomen,
thus giving rise to comaprison with darning needles (which,
incidentally, are pretty much a thing of the past in Murrica.....and
presumably in the rest of the "developed" world.....most of whose
residents under thirty or so probably have never seen it done and
don't know what the term darning refers to).

Dave (on the porch in Camp Denmar at Lakewood enjoying the 73 degree weather)-

The equinox cometh.

giles
who can hardly wait, darn it!