# I like dragonflies... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 14, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-dragonflies/195220 "2003-08-14T19:58:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andymurph64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@andymurph64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andymurph64)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-dragonflies/195220/1 "2003-08-14T19:58:25Z")
They are one of the coolest looking insects and I hear they eat vast quantities of mosquitoes… So, How do attract dragonflies? How do I make my yard the Garden of Eden for Dragonflies…to make dragonflies for miles around yearn to live on or near my yard? No, I’m not taking medication…why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-dragonflies/195220/2 "2003-08-14T20:45:20Z")
You could try breeding mosquitoes . . . ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-dragonflies/195220/3 "2003-08-14T21:17:36Z")
Well due to their voracious lake living larval stage, you need to be living near a decent, unpoluted lake. I believe dragonflies are highly effected by pesticides (being carniverous monsters of the insect world). I too love dragonflies, fantastically strange creatures, but then again I am taking medication. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-dragonflies/195220/4 "2003-08-14T21:27:24Z")
Yep, watre’s key here, but you don’t need a lake. At a resturant I used to eat at alot they used to get loads in the courtyard as they had a reasonably sized fountain with the water flowing into a sort of pond. ---
**Author:** ![andymurph64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@andymurph64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andymurph64)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-dragonflies/195220/5 "2003-08-14T21:27:54Z")
I think we have pleeeennnnnnttttttyyyyyyy of mosquitoes thank you very much! Live near lake…nope. No pesticides in water…nope…pesticides everywhere! People spray em at the drop of a hat. Looks like I’m SOL. ☹ On the plus side, I do have a frog living under one of my landscaped walls. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-dragonflies/195220/6 "2003-08-14T22:00:55Z")
Well there may be some little hope still. That frog would have needed to be spawned somewhere, I doubt that frogs travel very far from their spawning area. And tadpoles = dragonfly-nymph food. ---
**Author:** ![frixxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@frixxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frixxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-dragonflies/195220/7 "2003-08-14T22:32:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andymurph64 \* > \*\*On the plus side, I do have a frog living under one of my landscaped walls. \*\* You better move…one frog turns into two…then three…five…Next thing you know Moses is taking your neighbors for a trip! ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-dragonflies/195220/8 "2003-08-14T22:51:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by frixxxx \* > …one frog turns into two… That part is certainly wrong. Perhaps you missed a couple of biology lessons at school? 😉 This site may help the OP: [Backyard Dragonflies](http://www.ellerbecreek.org/Dragonflies.htm). Ponds and/or other water features in your yard are surely the way to go.