Travel Bug Dog Tag The Dragonfly

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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Origin:
Minnesota, United States
Recently Spotted:
In An Event with a Theme Song 2

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Current Goal

The dragonfly wants to fly from cache to cache and travel as much ground (and air) that it can. This one is a Damselfly!

About This Item

Dragonfly2

Dragonflies have been around 300 million years. One prehistoric fossil had a wingspan of 2 1/2 feet! Today, the largest dragonfly is found in Costa Rica. It has a wingspan of 7 1/2 inches. Below you’ll find more interesting facts about dragonflies.


•Dragonfly eyes contain up to 30,000 individual lenses. Human eyes only have one.

•They have two sets of wings. They don’t have to beat their wings in unison like other insects do. Their front wings can be going up while their backs ones are going down.

•They only flap their wings at about 30 beats per second (bps) compared to a bee’s 300 bps.

•Excellent and strong fliers, they can loop-the-loop, hover, and fly backwards.

•An Australian variety has been clocked at 36 miles per hour.
•Dragonfly nymphs (the first stage after hatching) live in the water for about a year.

•While underwater they eat mosquito nymphs, tiny fish, and pollywogs. When they have matured to airborne insects, they catch mosquitoes and gnats in mid-air before devouring them.

•After leaving the water and becoming flying insects, they only live for about a month.

•Their natural predators are birds.

•Among the many names for dragonflies around the world are Old Glassy from China, Water Dipper from England and Big Needle of Wings from the ancient Celts.

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Tracking History (4334mi) View Map

Write note 11/16/2009 Gilligan and MaryJane posted a note for it   Visit Log

This Travel Bug was last seen at our Event with a Theme Song in August 2009. This item is not in our inventory, and we suggest you contact the last person who had it, or mark it as missing.

Thanks,

Gilligan and MaryJane
Discovered It 8/16/2009 Geo Picker&Rewop discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at "An event with a theme song" at Don Cherry's Restaurant in St. John's, NL; August 16, 2009.

Awesome!
Geo Picker & Rewop
Discovered It 8/16/2009 rosesquared discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at the Event with a Theme Song 2.
Dropped Off 8/15/2009 Synthsurfer placed it in An Event with a Theme Song 2 Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada - 558.43 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/24/2009 Synthsurfer retrieved it from Fregate 332 Travel Bug Hotel Nova Scotia, Canada   Visit Log

I'm visiting from Newfoundland! Despite the rain, I went off in search of caches with my niece and nephew!

We found this TB in a TB Hotel and am taking it back to Newfoundland next week!

TFTC!
Synthsurfer
Dropped Off 7/11/2009 vdq861po2 placed it in Fregate 332 Travel Bug Hotel Nova Scotia, Canada - 10.99 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/10/2009 vdq861po2 retrieved it from EarthArt - Jacks Lake Smiley 4 Nova Scotia, Canada   Visit Log

To load my Travel Bug Cache.
Dropped Off 6/26/2009 Mr_Warhead placed it in EarthArt - Jacks Lake Smiley 4 Nova Scotia, Canada - 561.16 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 5/15/2009 Mr_Warhead grabbed it   Visit Log

Retrived it from Stoney Sandwich (GC128XV) Only Tag

  • Dragonfly
Discovered It 5/3/2009 robert.pitre discovered it   Visit Log

Found in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia at Stoney sandwich cache. left it there.
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