Dragonfly Fighting and Mosquitos performing Night Time Dive Bombing Manouevres

Just thought I'd write this down before I forget it.  Hubs was trying to dislodge what he thought was a dragonfly from committing suicide in our lightbulbs last night when he suddenly cursed and said: "That's not a dragonfly, little buggers just nipped me."  It looked like a dragonfly, although it was red in colour, but sounded like a whole army of them in the light bulb.  We were very wary of what flew in after that I can tell you. 

Then there are the squadrons of mosquitos who, true to form, are well versed in flying in formation en masse and buzzing at ear level just as you're dropping off, makes you jump.  The little sods we have here seem to have been practising their art for years, some are obviously in mosquito intelligence as they hide when the light goes on but it's a devil of a job trying to swat them in the dark!  Then when they think they've gotten away with it they try again, swooping low, in formation, buzzing and dive bombing as they go on a co-ordinated fly past of nuisance making, until the light goes on and bam, they bought it cos we're lying in wait for them most nights with a rolled up newspaper, which for some reason makes our collie go mental.


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