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By far my favorite insect! Am waiting for them to emerge for the summer here. *quality design

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Yea, we're looking at a horrible mosquito year unless we can stop the retard next door from nuking his pond again. We got him to stop last year and you wouldn't believe the size of the dragon flies. Mosquitoes were decimated. Ironically, he was doing it to kill the mosquitoes... We proved to him that DFs need the pond to develop, whereas any puddle or bucket of water is enough for mosquitoes.

Gosh, I love DFs. They're like the A10 Warthogs of the fight against getting bit to death...

You can actually buy live dragonfly nymphs online. It's probably not a good idea to release them into the wild, but you could watch them kick ass around your aquarium.

https://wardsci.com/store/catalog/product.jsp?catalog_number=876142

Nice. I might have to stock my new pond with them to keep mosquitos from developing into a problem. I have mosquito fish and gold fish in there already, but more=better.
Why do you think it's not good to release them? We have dragonflies here, but are you thinking an invasive sub-species might harm the natives?

Yeah, I only did a bit of research and I don't know how trustworthy the sites are, but that is exactly what people are afraid of; that any you buy are most likely a non-native species, since there are more than 5000 species of the things.

http://www.crueltyfreeproductreviews.com/?p=102

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/1989089/sources-for-dragonflies

That sounds right. I'll just go to the river down the street and catch some I guess. It's likely I won't have to, because I'm making the pond fairly natural, so dragonflies will probably stock it with nymphs by themselves. I won't be buying any from out of state, or even out of my county, that's for certain.