Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 21, 2022

Snoopy’s been hanging around Linus too long.

Woodstock’s safe, birds don’t have lips.

I know some people call dragonflies “devil’s darning needles,” but that’s ridiculous.

It’s true, they do. That’s what I was told when I was just a little whipper snapper.

Uh, Nitwit or Dragonfly?

The Norwegian word for dragonfly is “øyenstikker” which means “eye stinger.” I don’t know why they got that reputation.

That’s just an old dog’s tale!

Ah, I love seeing the dragonflies and damselflies emerge.

What a horrible true fact.

The Count hates it when that happens.

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I would have loved to see them when they had a 3’ wingspan.

They actually do that?

Birds don’t have lips, Woodstock. So you don’t need to worry.

Fearsome looking, but anything that eats mosquitoes is a friend to me!

I heard they can breath fire like real dragons.

I’ve never heard that one before. Learned something new today.

When my father took us fishing from a rowboat, we could see the damselflies. He would tell us “If you talk, one of them will come over and sew your lips together”.

Tell that dragonfly to fly to Lucy

The dragonflies name is Evinrude.

Huh, news to me.

Probably they don’t let you eat because if you swallow them accidently, they get stuck in you throat…?

Must be awfully fast sewers to do their work before you can swat them.

Look! It’s a dragonfly! I li…ummph! UMPH!!

The imagination that he has is amazing!

My grandparents called them darning needles.

That’s why some species are called Darners. (darner is one who darns while dragonfly is an insect of the suborder ’’(taxlink) or, more strictly, the infraorder anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.)

But only if you tell lies.

On this date in 1918 Baron von Richthofen AKA “The Red Baron” was shot down by Captain Arthur Roy Brown. The Red Baron is now remembered through Bubble Gum Pop Music

Fake News!

Only mosquito hawks do that…

Darn devil needle.

I remember someone telling me that when I was a kid; So naturally, I told my younger siblings!

When I was a kid, we called them “Sewing needles”. Scared me more than wasps.

Superstitions like that are why dogs don’t rule the world.

Dragonflies do bite, well the one I caught in my bare hands did. Won’t do that again.