This Dragonfly Flew Into My House

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Hello, Welcome to my most recent thread. This one is really good:

He flew in and was flying around the kitchen for a while, making lots of noise. Then he flew into the living room and got stuck behind a painting.
He was flapping around in there for like an hour. I recorded it with my audio recorder. It was a really neat sound, I may post it in this thread if there is enough demand.

He is still stuck behind there, even though it has been 4 hours since he first entered.

I tapped on the painting and he came out, flew around the room for a bit, and then went back behind the painting. I guess he likes it there.

Is this a common thing? Do you ever get dragonflies in your house who stick themselves in weird positions?

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Originally Posted by Tarsier

:welcome:

Hello, Welcome to my most recent thread. This one is really good:

He flew in and was flying around the kitchen for a while, making lots of noise. Then he flew into the living room and got stuck behind a painting.
He was flapping around in there for like an hour. I recorded it with my audio recorder. It was a really neat sound, I may post it in this thread if there is enough demand.

He is still stuck behind there, even though it has been 4 hours since he first entered.

I tapped on the painting and he came out, flew around the room for a bit, and then went back behind the painting. I guess he likes it there.

Is this a common thing? Do you ever get dragonflies in your house who stick themselves in weird positions?

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Hmmz I've experienced Dradgonflies doing strange things. I sat in the garden once with my mom and a friend of her's. 2 Dragonflies showed up. Real big ones and they started flying really low over our heads. Then another one came. And another 3. And before we knew it the entire airspace above our garden was filled with dragonflies. Certainly more than 10 of them and they were all dive bombing us, flying over really low. We actually took shelter inside our house for a while. War of the Dragonflies?

Anyway they're beautyfull, albeit rather freaky, lifeforms.

It could be that the Dragonfly was strangely attracted to the painting: Maybe it's colors matched those of his food, or mating partner? Gee I've no idea.

Yeah well I was thinking about it and I discovered that the painting is actually of the field by my house, that is where the dragonflies come from, in the swamp there. So I guess he was trying to find a way through.

It's migration season for the dragonflies (kind of early, actually), and there tend to be confused stragglers. I used to work at a restaurant called Dragonfly, and late summer/early fall we would find lone dragonflies batting against the big front windows, trying to move along.

I really like them.

They are wicked cool creatures :)

Ya dood.

One of the few bugs I won't scream about... well only if they're far away :P

I'm scared of them.

you followed and filmed it?

If it were me id either:

Run and scream

Or kill it


im terrified of bugs

i had one banging into the window the other day in my house. I just caught it with a plastic bag and let it go outside. Anything that kills mosquitoes are a friend of mine.