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SOME twenty-five years ago, while working in the garden, I noticed that a dragon-fly kept alighting on the handle of a wheel-barrow which I was using. During its absence I was preparing to shift the barrow, and had my hands on the handles when the insect returned; after slight hesitation, it settled on my hand immediately over the spot where it had previously rested. Waiting until it had departed on another flight, I placed a piece of sacking completely over the barrow, and when the dragon-fly returned, it alighted in exactly the same position on the covered handle.
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GOODCHILD, H. A Curious Habit of Dragon-flies. Nature 164, 1058 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641058b0
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