Control mosquitoes with dragonflies

Rick Patrick reporter3.riverbendnews@gmail.com Dragonflies are a common sight in this area. With their ability to hover and fly straight up and down, they can resemble little helicopters flitting around your yard. What you may not know is with all that flitting around, these attractive flies are natural “mosquito munching machines.” In fact, one dragonfly can consume hundreds of mosquitoes every day. Farmersalmanac.com provides some helpful tips for attracting dragonflies to your yard so they can start working for you to help curb the mosquito masses. One thing you will want to do is remove the bug zapper. Dragonflies can just as easily find themselves in the bug zapper as will mosqu