I was fascinated by dragonflies as a youth. They buzzed by on flashing wings, sometimes just missing my head in their erratic, darting flight. An older neighbor told us that if we were not careful they (he called them darning needle flies) would land on our heads and sew our eyelids shut. You can imagine we 10-12 year-olds were frightened by this prospect and we sure avoided them. This ridiculous myth is of course not true.
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