For about three minutes this weekend, a peaceful family beach in Westerly Rhode Island turned into what looked like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's iconic film, 'The Birds.'
Beachgoers in Westerly, Rhode Island, were subject to a scene that looked straight out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”:descended on the beach, flying in from the water and swarming for about five minutes.
“Because there were so many of this blue dasher, it's possible that they're in a cycle of high population density,” Brown says. “When population densities are high and there's not enough resources for everybody, they're known to move in search of new habitats.” However, normally when dragonflies migrate, it’s a few hundred at a time flying by over several hours. Usually, adult dragonflies fly around ponds and other aquatic areas searching for a mate.
Dragonflies have been on Earth for 300 million years, Brown says. They used to be the size of crows, but otherwise are roughly the same behaviorally and physically today as they were back then.
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