Okay, so this may sound weird, but is there a correlation?

Question

Okay, so yesterday was the solar eclipse, right? well, i live in a suburb of chicago, no water around us, and last night, there was a swarm of dragonflies swarming around a couple of houses on our street. I have never in my life seen anything like this, all they were doing was flying and they were all the way out, as far as i could see, and they were all the way up. i've never seen that many dragonflies, even at like a reservoir. it was really strange. so do you think there was a correlation between the eclipse and the weird behavior of the stupid bugs? it may seem strange, but i am 100 percent serious, and really baffled, and if you don't think its because of that, or if you've seen something like that, let me know ur theories. thanx!!!

Answer 1

Sure. It got darker so they thought it was sunset, and got confused when it brightened up again.

Answer 2

I doubt if there is any correlation because other bugs would have been affected. The solar eclipse was far north of Chicago. Perhaps it is Mayor Daley!

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclip...

Answer 4

My guess is that sort of swarming behavior has to do with mating. However, I have also seen red d-flies mating in flight as pairs without  any other individuals around.

Some years ago there was a news report of frogs making war in India; it turned out to be an orgy, not a battle, but some reporter couldn't tell the difference.