They eat a lot of insects that would otherwise be dining on people. They're beautiful, many colors and designs, and they pose long enough for pictures. Here's a visitor on the front path a few minutes ago
Definitely a fan here.
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Me too. I love seeing them buzzing busily about.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy watching their movement over the ground. We have aqua coloured ones here. Beauties too.
ReplyDeleteThey come in all kinds of iridescent colors. Darners are lovely like flying jewels
DeleteThese creatures are a summer delight.
ReplyDeletewe have a lot down here too hovering and flying around the open spaces sweeping up gnats and mosquitos. they've even laid eggs in my little pond before though not that it's full of parrot feather they can't get to the water.
ReplyDeleteFan here too!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Chris from Boise
They are so lovely.
ReplyDeleteCentral NJ, I lived in Princeton and Belle Mead for a combined nine years.
ReplyDeleteOh yes - a fan here too. I've always thought they look so delicate and marvel at the fact that they can fly without hurting themselves.
ReplyDeleteI like dragonflies and leave out a shallow bowl of water for them, butterflies, and other good insects.
ReplyDeleteWe're having a heatwave and the water dish has been monopolized by two juvenile bluejays bathing noisily with maximum splashing of water. They usually drink at length before bathing in their drinking water.
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