So, the brown dragonflies can be hypnotized and picked up! I'll post some pictures later today. Also, it seems that it really is only the brown ones that will fall for it. The red ones (the only other color available yesterday) would take off as soon as they saw you coming.
Speaking of seeing you coming, walking around waving your finger in a circle isn't exactly a good way to blend in. My first attempt at dragonfly bamboozlement was next to the road. I walked toward the dragonfly resting on the fence slowly, with my finger moving in big, slow circles. I got within a foot before it took off. At about that time I heard a car go by behind me. From a car, no one would be able to see a dragonfly. All they would see is a big, white foreigner hunkered down, creeping towards a fence waving his finger in a circle. Had a red dragonfly landed on my face at about that time, it would've been very well camouflaged. I'm not sure why they let me go out in public.
Especially because after we went to the park and made some dragonflies dizzy, we took pictures of spiders by the road. We could get really close to them and get some good pictures. On the other hand, they were very active and made us jumpy. A couple of foreigners crouching down, taking pictures of who-knows-what and getting startled had to make for a head-scratcher.
We also saw a snake eat a frog. It was a pretty eventful day.
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