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Dragonflys?
Eldendir Crowfoot Started conversation Feb 16, 2003
Hi peeps,
due to an on going discussion at work I would like to ask if any one can clarify if drogonflys have a sting. Now, I am pretty sure that they do not but people have argued strongly enough to make me unsure. I have tried to look it up but have found out nearly everything else there is to know but have not yet found an entry that catagorically states 'no you knobber, dragonflys do/don't have a sting', yours hopefully,
Eldendir
Dragonflys?
Eldendir Crowfoot Posted Feb 16, 2003
Not that I want to cast any doubts on your intellect in any way but is this an educated guess like mine or is this swimming in a sea of truth and fact?
Is there any way to get evidence of this so that I can take it to work and show the guys whilst saying ner ner ne ner ner?
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Stealth "Jack" Azathoth Posted Feb 16, 2003
In as much as stinging insects didn't evolve until the Cretaceous period [less than 150Mya] and Dragonflys appeared in the Carboniferous Period [more than 350Mya]...
yes...
I don't know where you could get evidence to wave at them apart from buying a book on Insects that has picture of Dragonflys and Mayflys as well as Bees and Wasps...
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Feb 16, 2003
They have no sting.Seen enough of them in life and death to know that.
Beautiful insects-I have some silver dragonfly earrings which I wear all the time.
Incog.
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Eldendir Crowfoot Posted Feb 16, 2003
Well thanks Stealth,
I have tried various on line encyclopaedias which didn't really give evidence one way or the other but I will resume the search as I now feel a bet might be in order if I play this right. E.
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Zantic - Who is this woman?? Posted Feb 17, 2003
Quick Google for dragonfly found me the british dragonfly society. they state quite firmly that dragonflies do not sting or bite...much as they might wish too...
they do not have a sting...but their ovipositor is often mistaken for one..
http://www.dragonflysoc.org.uk/faq.htm#biting
Above is the FAQ page where I got the info...
Zantic (bored of researching for my PhD.. 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Feb 17, 2003
They bloody well do bite! I've been bitten by one. Damn thing landed on my arm- next thing I knew, much pain and large red lump 
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Feb 17, 2003
Wasn't a dragonfly then.
Incog.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Feb 17, 2003
Well, what else is there that looks like a dragonfly? I mean, they're pretty distinctive 
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Zantic - Who is this woman?? Posted Feb 17, 2003
There are several different kinds of dragonfly. From the quick look I had at the above website, the majority cannot harm a human even though they try. Then, of course we have the mimics which look enough like the originals to fools predators etc. Maybe it was one o them? I have no idea really, I'm just on a course of work avoidance...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Feb 17, 2003
Must have been a mimicy thing then. Wonder what there're called.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Feb 17, 2003
They're, even 
, bugger it, I can't *believe* I typed that *hangs head in shame*
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Feb 18, 2003
We do not bite or sting. That was my cousin Mortimer!!!! 
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Feb 18, 2003
WOAH!!! That link to the British Dragonfly League-Club-Association was AWESOME!!!
Great myths!!! 
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Cloviscat Posted Feb 18, 2003
KerrAvon - could it have been a horsefly? They're (doublecheck - yup, right spelling) vicious brutes.
I once found a dragonfly in my third floor bedroom, miles from any stream, in the middle of a seaside town - how come? Scared the willies out of me - it made *such* a nise against the window!
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Feb 18, 2003
Nope, I know what a horsefly looks like- I've been bitten by one too. It wasn't as bad as that.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Feb 18, 2003
Huh. Hardly.
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- 1: Eldendir Crowfoot (Feb 16, 2003)
- 2: Stealth "Jack" Azathoth (Feb 16, 2003)
- 3: Eldendir Crowfoot (Feb 16, 2003)
- 4: Stealth "Jack" Azathoth (Feb 16, 2003)
- 5: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Feb 16, 2003)
- 6: Eldendir Crowfoot (Feb 16, 2003)
- 7: Xanatic (Feb 17, 2003)
- 8: Zantic - Who is this woman?? (Feb 17, 2003)
- 9: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Feb 17, 2003)
- 10: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Feb 17, 2003)
- 11: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Feb 17, 2003)
- 12: Zantic - Who is this woman?? (Feb 17, 2003)
- 13: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Feb 17, 2003)
- 14: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Feb 17, 2003)
- 15: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Feb 18, 2003)
- 16: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Feb 18, 2003)
- 17: Cloviscat (Feb 18, 2003)
- 18: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Feb 18, 2003)
- 19: Cloviscat (Feb 18, 2003)
- 20: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Feb 18, 2003)
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