Can You Kill a Dragonfly

In many of their myths, dragonflies represent gods or supernatural beings capable of causing great harm to anyone who disturbs them. … However, killing or harming a dragonfly is akin to killing or harming a god and supposedly brings bad things onto whoever is unlucky enough to do so.

Can a dragonfly kill a human?

In truth dragonflies are harmless to humans – unless you force your finger into their mouth. A large golden-ringed dragonfly once gave my father’s finger a bloody nip as he held it for me to photograph.

Do dragonflies die easily?

Most dragonflies don’t die of old age but are caught by predators. Even if they do survive, they still don’t live much longer than a few months. A surprising and interesting fact about the dragonfly is that, they will spend only a very short part of their life span as actual adult dragonflies.