Favorite flying insect?

[hohner]

Mosquitos

 

[revoltub]

 

[Strychnine]

The Dragonfly. We call them "Mosquito-Hawks" down here for a reason and you'll never see anyone from down here kill one either.

Never kill a dragonfly, just shoo them away if they bother you. They KILL mosquitoes.

 

[Dan Torrance]

Probably this little buddy

I bet he's popular at parties.

 

[crabmeat]

THE MANTISView attachment 863420

I've only seen one mantis in all the years I've lived in Florida. When I lived in Southern Maryland, I saw a mantis eating a black widow.

 

[Noveltymortar]

Dragonfly is great but I'm a fan of the gardeners friend:

 

[crabmeat]

We would try to catch them all the time when we were younger. Had a young red one thats been hovering around me at the farm the last few days

Did you scissor your fingers to catch them?

 

[GoodBadHBK]

I hate those John Cenapeeds that were going wild a month ago

 

[Ares Black]

Dragonfly by far.

 

[revoltub]

I hate those John Cenapeeds that were going wild a month ago

It's hard to see those

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

Forgot about the mantis. We need the dragonflies now to help us.

Seriously I remember i ran into a mantis when I was a kid. Thing creeped me out like it was an alien.

They are weird as fuck. In a cool way.
When I was a kid when I would wander around sometimes I would grab dead leaves off bushes and crumple them up in the fall months.
(they are brittle and kinda shatter)
Anyway one day I did that and felt something stab me in the hand a bunch and I kinda screamed "aaahh" like Beavis.

I had like a 6 inch long praying mantis in my hand.

(not my hand, or my mantis)

I guess it was chilling in the leaves I grabbed.

It looked pretty pissed off
We both stared at each other for a minute and my friend turned around to see why I was cursing more than usual and asked me where I got the mantis from.
I told him "That stupid fucking bush"
And then he flew away.
Hella Pissed off.
(the mantis, not my friend)

 

[GoodBadHBK]

It's hard to see those

Really? I saw about a million of them fly into my windshield while driving along with several hundred thousand flying into me freaking me out.

Edit: took me a min but I got it lol

Nice one

 

[Ares Black]

The Dragonfly. We call them "Mosquito-Hawks" down here for a reason and you'll never see anyone from down here kill one either.

Never kill a dragonfly, just shoo them away if they bother you. They KILL mosquitoes.

My first year treeplanting in Northern Ontario, at the height of blackfly season,I was on the block just getting murdered by a cloud of blackflies.

A few hours into the day I was losing my damn mind, when a flight of dragonflies appeared on the horizon. I swear to God they were flying in formation.

They massacred that swarm of blackflies. It was so beautiful. Since that day I have loved dragonflies.

 

[raty tat tat]

Mantis are cool too.

 

[boingyman]

Anything but flying cockroaches in Hawaii

 

[Oceanmachine]

Dragonfly is great but I'm a fan of the gardeners friend:
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What do they do?

 

[Noveltymortar]

What do they do?

They eat the things that eat your plants. Great bugs to have around.

 

[mb23100]

Fireflies are awesome looking at night

 

[evergreenrider]

Did you scissor your fingers to catch them?

Thats the only way isn't it?

 

[Oceanmachine]

They eat the things that eat your plants. Great bugs to have around.

That little thing eats things that eat plants? Woah