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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wait. They eat mosquitos?

How do I attract more of these flying dragons?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago

Breeding mosquitoes should help attract them.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Water is the answer my friend.

Never had them in my yard, not that I noticed anyway. Buried an old trash can for a water feature. Bam. Dragonflies.

I have 3 other ponds. One is a $25 Home Depot pond and the other is a thrift-store witch's cauldron. They all have a couple of goldfish in them, native water plants, and the trash can pond has a solar cell running a 12V water pump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Some people even wear a little dragonfly doodad on a wire to deter mosquitoes