A dragonfly landed on my hand

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I went fishing with friends this weekend.

Not much action on the lake except for this small pike.
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Then I got this friendly dragonfly who sunbathed on my hand until I got bored.
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My friend told me it was a good luck sign. Which made me feel pretty good about it as I'm currently going thru a rough patch.
Back at home I've read mixed opinions about dragonfly depending on the culture. I chose to keep the best regardless.
 
For some reason I always been skeered of dragon flies, always figured that big ole tail section as a giant stinger that would just plain hurt like the dickens.

I reckon if it's good luck though I'd take the risk iffen it might help, one can never have an overabundance of good luck.

Maybe some kevlar gloves just for safety sake. Good picture though, having it happen is cool, catching it for posterity is priceless.
 
Well if it aint good luck they sure make killer fish bait! From the looks of that pike id say luck is already on your side. Awesome photography btw:thumbup:
 
I don't know that we have Pike over on my coast. We got Tiger Muskies in the lake we visit every summer.

They get quite huge. I think they gotta be 30"?? before you can keep them. Ugly fish to me, hard to catch but we have caught a few while bass fishing, they hang out in the same waters.

They are good to eat, actually alot like bass too. Mouth full of teeth, sort of like an alligator with no legs.......
 
ndoghouse said:
Well if it aint good luck they sure make killer fish bait! From the looks of that pike id say luck is already on your side. Awesome photography btw:thumbup:
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Thanks and right - Maybe if it had sunk its maxilaes/mandibles in my finger I would of consider that option. But since it came in peace. I kept it friendly.

Bawanna said:
For some reason I always been skeered of dragon flies, always figured that big ole tail section as a giant stinger that would just plain hurt like the dickens.

I reckon if it's good luck though I'd take the risk iffen it might help, one can never have an overabundance of good luck.

Maybe some kevlar gloves just for safety sake. Good picture though, having it happen is cool, catching it for posterity is priceless.
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No stinger there but apparently they have strong jaws. An unexpected bite can pull some words out of your mouth that you wouldn't want to share in a Church. :-)
 
Definitely good luck in my book! Very cool pics. Glad you posted them.
 
Hey, we have a leash law here, pal.....

When kids we would catch the three engine jobs and tie a string to them and to a wand of a stick and take them for walk and be a poor farm child Cox airplane at same time...

When nature smiles, we smile back....if that had been a big hairy spider or huge wasp, i would have felt different.....gorgeous photo of a gorgeous day....
 
You're a much calmer soul than I. If that had happened to me I probably would have reflexively shaken him loose of my hand the moment I felt him land.
 
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Good looking view. That spider looks like something out of a horror flick. You're good with a camera.
 
Many of our spiders are poisonous around here...most bite if messed with and effect ranges from wasp sting to rotted hole in flesh with a brown recluse....i have had a brown widow infestation of everything around full length porch that i had to go out at night when they came out and sat on webs and blast them there, as no way to get to them in daytime mummy bag they weave inside some crack or corner....they were on EVERYTHING, and many were huge mommas with huge red hourglass classics....after several months of going out every several nights, i finally got rid of them, but they were winning and multiplying for a while....had to check every porch swing and chair and table and grill before using...and motorcycle and mower and etc etc etc.....of course, our roaches are as long as a Zippo lighter and as wide as a Bic, and Dobie knows them too.....Floridians intent on tourist trade tells visitors they are "palmetto bugs" when they are Great American Cockroaches....

As for reflexively shaking, you learn down here to look first because it might cause more problems than staying still......the ones i hate are the giant blood sucking flies....and the giant waterbugs with switchblade probiscus and who suck out giant bullfrog tadpoles as if a milkshake, and those critters fly like the giant roaches and dockside nights can be interesting when one clangs into an overhead floodlight and then lands on neck....

 
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A friend bought a new Toyota earlier this year. Came straight from Japan, after a week or so, spiders started to show up here and there in the car. Then it turned into a nightmare as they were everywhere, even bursting out of the air vents. He didn't know what kind it was and if they were poisonous. His girlfriend didn't want to go in the car anymore.

He had to go numerous times to the dealer as the few first attempts to get rid of them didn't work. Although he was really p!ssed, we couldn't resist to laugh out loud on every iterations to the story.
 
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Spiders are tough....only a direct hit will get them...they can sense each microdrop of poison with leg hairs and tippy-toe right through where you just sprayed....he is lucky they won....i wonder what the Customs and Ag folk would have said if informed.....probably would have gotten a thorough one-time job or a new car out of it....
 
We have only two spiders you have to watch out for. Brown Recluse and the Black widow. The spider you posted sno looks like a common house spider. There's several names for them and they are aggressive and they do bite but they are minimally poisonous. unless your allergic then no problem. The can be confused with Recluse but most North American poisonous spiders will have solid color legs and no hair on their legs. That one has stripes and hair so I dont think its poisonous. Dont totally trust me though because im speaking mostly in my area. They can be identified also by the number of eyes they have (six or eight) and also the spinneret where they spew their web. otherwise they are very hard for the common guy to positively identify. I was taking close up pics one time of what I thought was a house spider but when I processed the pics i found out it was obviously a brown recluse. My eyes aint what the used to be so im more careful now. Black Widows are obvious but do have many different types of markings.
They are all over the place here. They like my charcoal pile for some reason. Hers one big momma that lives there. I dont mess with them and they dont mess with me. Know their habitat and respect it and you will be fine. No need to wipe them of the face of the earth. They do good for you!

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I leave alone unless they invade my turf and mama has herds and not litters when the eggs hatch.
Pretty much leave everything alone unless it is trying to eat me or compete with me for my food....i would say fireants are the only thing i go after ruthlessly anywhere on property....they wipe out everything they find including nesting young of any critter furred or feathered....my brown widows are same as the black...but when they take over my entire porch all the way around my house, it is time for war...our recluse spiders are impossible to mistake for anything else....honkin' big and fiddle/cello marking impossible to mistake for any other mark....i had one get in a shoe one time and bit me on bottom of foot, i was laid up for two weeks with draining quarter diameter rotted hole in bottom of foot which had to be kept open to heal from inside out....
 
mtngunr said:
I leave alone unless they invade my turf and mama has herds and not litters when the eggs hatch.
Pretty much leave everything alone unless it is trying to eat me or compete with me for my food....i would say fireants are the only thing i go after ruthlessly anywhere on property....they wipe out everything they find including nesting young of any critter furred or feathered....my brown widows are same as the black...but when they take over my entire porch all the way around my house, it is time for war...our recluse spiders are impossible to mistake for anything else....honkin' big and fiddle/cello marking impossible to mistake for any other mark....i had one get in a shoe one time and bit me on bottom of foot, i was laid up for two weeks with draining quarter diameter rotted hole in bottom of foot which had to be kept open to heal from inside out....
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Though apparently fire ants are great at reducing tick populations. I actually hate fire ants less than spiders. I despise spiders, while fire ants I merely dislike a lot, especially when I do things like take a knee in a fire ant pile. That unfortunately happened to me once, in addition to stepping on a pile at least one other time that day. Then there were the times when I walked through banana spider webs without realizing it until the web is on my face and I notice a big honking banana spider hanging off of me. How I hate spiders...
 
i had a hunting spider living in the house where i used to live. sucker was about 3 inches across. it'd walk across the living room carpet occasionally. the dogs would watch it but never went after it. neither did i. as long as we were not on it's menu, i figure it could keep the other bugs at bay. my current domicile had one too. not quite so big. haven't seen him for a while. probably crawled out a window. they have the benefit of not spinning webs, so i don't have to clean up after them. i have a web spider living in my driver's side car mirror. persistent devil. i clear his web off every time i drive & he/she keeps spinning a web the next night. i've never seen the actual spider, i gather he's in behind the moveable mirror.
 
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