dragonfly and green bottle fly

my interest in dragonflies was aroused when i saw the tiger dragonfly in victor's blog. before that i used to think that there were about two species of dragonflies in singapore. when i surfed the internet to find out more about dragonflies in s'pore, i was amazed to find out the range of wonderful species found in s'pore.

dragonflies are normally found near places where there is water. in my kampong, the dragonflies would be seen darting around near the monsoon drains. once in a while we would catch one but we usually released it because dragonflies are not much fun to play with.

the green bottle fly, like the blue bottle fly, was regarded as dirty and a nuisance. it was too big to be food for our fighting spiders, so we did not bother to catch or kill it.