by "Bob" <bobwhite@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Oct 4, 2007 at 04:38 AM
"Wooly" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:4703a9ba$0$9610$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Yesterday morning I was divebombed by the biggest dragonfly I've
> ever seen: The body was longer than my hand and bottle-green, and
> the wingspan was a good 12". I've had thumb-sized red dragonflies
> around the yard all summer but this monster was something else
> altogether.
>
<snip>
As a kid (back in the 1940 - 50's, these were known as "S****
Doctors".
They were found all over, not necessarily by water and were much
more abundant than they are now. (probably going fast like the
horn-toads).
Bob-tx
