Sunday, August 14, 2016

To Crush a Dragonfly

Riding on the shoulders, you get to see whatever has landed on the wayside. Most rocks and grit, but sometimes a dead bird or animal. In particular, lots of locusts and even dragonflies. The locusts are sometimes live and leap away from the certain doom of my rolling tire at the last second. 

The dragonflies are all dead. I think the heat from the road exhausts them, based on seeing dragonflies perish in my garage in the summers of my youth. 

I wonder how much our road infrastructure actually contributes to dragonfly mortality. 


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