Posted on Jul 30, 2024
Dragonfly swarm takes over Rhode Island beach: "Is the world ending?"
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Dragonflies don't bite or sting people and they EAT mosquitoes.
Dragonfly swarm takes over Rhode Island beach: "Is the world ending?"
Posted from cbsnews.comPosted in these groups: State of Rhode Island
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The News had a whole piece on this morning. According to them this isn't that unusual except this migration was over a populated beach.
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COL Randall C.
I saw an old map* (2012) from "The Dragonfly Lady" (Christine Goforth). Swarms look to be common (at least 12 years ago) on the East coast from New Jersey up to Massachusetts.
This was apparently one of the rarer types (a 'migratory swarm' instead of a 'feeding swarm') that had hundreds of thousands dragonflies in it (although one article from Men's Journal baselessly said it was "billions"*)
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* 2012 swarm map - https://thedragonflywoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2012-static-swarms1.jpg
* Men's Journal article - https://www.mensjournal.com/news/dragonflies-swarm-misquamicut-beach-rhode-island
This was apparently one of the rarer types (a 'migratory swarm' instead of a 'feeding swarm') that had hundreds of thousands dragonflies in it (although one article from Men's Journal baselessly said it was "billions"*)
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* 2012 swarm map - https://thedragonflywoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2012-static-swarms1.jpg
* Men's Journal article - https://www.mensjournal.com/news/dragonflies-swarm-misquamicut-beach-rhode-island
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I'd be cheering the swarm on. Those guys deplete the mosquito population quite nicely.
Now if only they'd develop a taste for the black and yellow types with a bad attitude...
Now if only they'd develop a taste for the black and yellow types with a bad attitude...
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
If you live in the north getting them to acquire a taste for no-see-ums would be nice.
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Only today's media would run with something like this and only in a blue state would the people fret like it was a sign of the apocalypse. Be thankful the swarm wasn't cockroaches...
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