Dragonfly teem takes over Rhode Island beach: “Is the concern ending?” – Notice Today Online

WESTERLY, R.I. – A punctuation at the beach overturned into something discover of a flick in Rhode Island when a teem of dragonflies descended on beachgoers.

Videos posted to ethnic media exhibit whatever on Misquamicut Beach in Westerly concealment up with towels Sat as the insects flew overhead. 

“I’m category of scared,” digit mortal is heard locution in a recording posted to X, erst famous as Twitter, by individual @Getlucky12341. “Is the concern ending?”

“Hundreds of thousands of dragonflies”

“Invasion of the Dragonflies!” was the rendering Mark Stickney chose for the recording he posted to Facebook. He told WBZ-TV he got to the beach at most 11 a.m. and “started range dragonflies everywhere.”

The maximal swam touched in from the ocean at most 1 p.m.

“It must’ve numbered in the hundreds of thousands of dragonflies,” Stickney said. “It was surreal.”

He said the dragonflies weren’t bothering anybody, and most beachgoers stayed put. Stickney said the insects reminded him of X-wing fighters from “Star Wars.”

“I intellection it was amazing,” he said. “It was an staggering sight.”

What causes a odonate swarm?

Ginger Brown, a odonate proficient in Rhode Island, said the teem took locate right the exemplary migration punctuation for dragonflies that’s between mid-August and mid-September. She said dragonflies hit been famous to relocate if their habitats of swamps and bogs parched up. 

“It is all doable that’s what we’re range now,” emancipationist said. “They crapper movement daylong distances with qualifying ease.”

Brown said dragonflies are a key conception of the ecosystem, as they take mosquitos and another pests, and also help as matter for birds and modify predacious plants.

“They’re extremely essential in that scheme of life,” she said.

Brown additional that anyone who gets caught in a odonate teem has no think to be afraid.

“Just savor the phenomenon,” she said. “They hit superior vision, they’re not feat to control into your face.”