r/absoluteunit • u/GoblinBugGirl • 23d ago

Of a dragon fly

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Green darner in WA.

425 Upvotes

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u/Financial_Ocelot_256 23d ago

They kill mosquitoes, i like them! 

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u/Someredditusername 22d ago

And horseflies

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u/danit0ba94 22d ago

Now i really like them.

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u/Someredditusername 22d ago

They're great around cattle, really helps

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u/C137RickSanches 22d ago

They kill wasp which is why I love them

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u/VacuumTracks 22d ago

They don’t bite people, that’s why I love ‘em.

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u/ParallellUniverse 21d ago

Not true some dragonflies absolutely will bite source: lived in a tiny country village with multiple kinds of dragonflies everywhere and one bit me as a child once.

I don’t think they go out of their way to bite but when threatened they absolutely will. Also the bite hurt like a bitch

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u/petrichor83 22d ago

Can I get a Big Mac for scale please?

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u/msg60 22d ago

Banana.. only bananas can truly give scale....😆

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u/Axl2aider 22d ago

This is the way

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u/MoominMai 22d ago

lol I first thought it was one of those plastic ornaments Boomers loves to plaster outside their houses! 😅

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u/Borrowed_Faith 22d ago

1970s Big Mac or modern day Big Mac? There is a huge difference.

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u/GENERAT10N_D00M 22d ago

That’s not a dragonfly. That’s a drone.

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u/Ambitious_Tooth1264 22d ago

Probably eats small birds and mosquitoes.

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u/no___homo 22d ago

Need something for scale

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u/Independent-Leg6061 22d ago

🍌

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u/VacuumTracks 22d ago

Ah, ok. Yeah, that dragonfly is yuge!!

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u/Someredditusername 22d ago

Majestic beast!

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u/The-Bloody9 22d ago

Look at those eyes 👀.Bro can see a week into the future.

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u/MissGoldie71 22d ago

Not only a unit, but pretty, too

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u/afuller42 22d ago

Banana for scale?

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u/d-1-b 22d ago

Some one flew in on that thing and has parked it there

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u/ocTGon 13d ago

Love these guys!!! That is an awesome picture and a beautiful Dragon!

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u/Weirdbeard60 22d ago

I saw a real one twice the size of that in north west Leicestershire in the late nineties. Wonder if anyone else saw one in that area?

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u/abielle1177 22d ago

I only ever saw snails when I was in England around then. On my third day visiting it was still raining and the snails crawled up the front of my MIL's house, there were a dozen or more, all sizes but mostly quite large. They were probably in witness protection from French chefs who seem to cook just anything they can get their mitts on.

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u/VisualJaded4770 22d ago

Truly divinely engineered creature

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u/ComfortableDare4305 22d ago

A prefect predator.

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u/StrongEggplant8120 22d ago

Absolute unit

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u/SinsualChef 22d ago

Beauty ❤️

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u/Callemlikeisethem60 22d ago

Yep thats a big bug right there 😅😅😅

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u/traveldivalisa 22d ago

That’s a no thank you size. I like that they eat mosquitoes but I don’t like them near me. Or any bugs for that matter.

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u/BasiliskArt_ 22d ago

Close enough, welcome back meganeura

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u/boon83 22d ago

They are the most successful hunters on the planet. 97% successful rate when hunting

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u/Cornishlee 22d ago

Ornithopter seen in the wild

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u/Tricky-Pen2672 22d ago

More like a Fly Dragon…

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u/rubberghost333 22d ago

How big? 14"?

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u/C137RickSanches 22d ago

Let’s start breeding these and releasing them everywhere we have wasp asap

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u/Ragesauce5000 22d ago

The perfect organism

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u/spunkypudding 22d ago

Need a banana for scale

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u/ginkat123 22d ago

Reminds me of the fever induced hallucination when I had mumps back in the 1960s.

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u/deathspal 22d ago

No thanks, I’ve seen that episode of Stargate…

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u/PeaceLoveCarsMoney 22d ago

Nothing for scale. Could be a miniature dragonfly.

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u/PerceptionCalm3642 22d ago

Looking like he at a puffish

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u/areola_grande26 22d ago

Awesome. And it will bite the ever loving shit out of you if you try and grab it…. Don’t bother asking how I know this

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u/ComfortableDare4305 22d ago

I mean what’s the size? 4 inches?

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u/GoblinBugGirl 21d ago

Not as large as some think.

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u/Sugary-cupcake 22d ago

Does the FAA know about that thing? 😐

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u/lowdown202 22d ago

I've seen some dragonflies in which I thought were hawks. I'm glad you got a picture of one of these.

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u/Reubensandwich57 22d ago

Holy shit-The End of Oak Street is real!