dragonfly• Being for once in the mood to get things right, Phoebe had brought home from the library a book about dragonflies.• There were fireflies and dragonflies and huge blackflies with electric wings.• The earliest so far discovered are dragonflies.• They scarcely resemble the order of dragonflies after which they were named.• Indeed, some of our dragonflies regularly migrate across the NorthSea.• That second child may have spent her preschool years catching and studyingdragonflies or building castles out of blocks.• No bird of preyhoveredoverhead, not even the dragonfliesdisturbed the oilysurface of the pond.