Dragonfly
Dragonflies have a saying: “How do you eat an entire human? One bite at a time.” Reader Scott Roche discovered this painful truth the hard way just moments after this picture was taken.
I am kidding, of course. Scott is here demonstrating that the secret to luring dragonflies in for photo sessions is to be sticky. I mean sticky not like syrup, but like in the joke: “What’s brown and sticky? A stick.” Dragonflies love to perch on twigs and sticks that poke up. Perhaps because this gives them a clear view of their surroundings? If so, do they do this for defensive purposes (”nothing can sneak up on me here!“), or offensive (”anything I see moving gets eaten!“)?
Then again, maybe dragonflies are smarter than we give them credit for. Perhaps they do this because they know the human owning the finger will freak out and take their picture (”I’ll meet you guys down at the lake in a minute. But first, this lady has a Nikon DSLR and it takes a bigger bug than me to pass that up.”)?
I mean, if I were a dragonfly, that would totally be why I would do it.
Thank you Scott… another awesome picture!
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JFargo said,
February 26, 2008 @ 8:27 am
That’s an absolutely amazing photo.
b13 said,
February 26, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
What a crazy-sick (that’s good) photo of a crazy-sick creature. I truly love dragonflies and this picture is awe inspiring.
Scott said,
February 27, 2008 @ 7:49 am
Thanks guys. I suffer for my art so you don’t have to.
Insect Picture of the Day » Dragonfly said,
March 3, 2008 @ 7:02 am
[…] picture comes from who else but Scott Roche. I believe it is the same dragonfly as this one from last week. In this picture, however, the dragonfly has given up trying to eat Scott and has decided to move […]