Comments on: Caught Any Dragonflies Lately?

By: atbnorge

atbnorge — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:26:04 +0000

“Tutubi, tutubi, huwag kang pahuhuli sa batang mapanghi!” went our chant when distracting a friend from catching a dragonfly.

By: iya

iya — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:25:00 +0000

i went to a friend’s farm in tagaytay and i saw lots of dragonflies with brightpink and bright blue bodies. ganda!

By: Redge

Redge — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:57:46 +0000

About 2 decades ago I used to catch dragonflies and damselflies of varied colors (the red dragonflies and blue damselflies were the most beautiful). I put them inside a glass jar, wrap plastic film on top, poke holes on it and put rubber band around the lid.

I also remember catching tadpoles, salagubang, caterpillars, tiny frogs, and guppies in the clear canals.

Oh, it was wonderful back then!

I wish my “future” children could still enjoy the childhood that I had…

By: jakbkk

jakbkk — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:19:53 +0000

thanks to ATBNORGE and DENISE….guess i’ll have to ask around regarding Sampaloc trees….

By: jakbkk

jakbkk — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:19:52 +0000

thanks to ATBNORGE and DENISE….guess i’ll have to ask around regarding Sampaloc trees….

By: denise

denise — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:15:57 +0000

hi MM! how’s the vacation? we still have lots of dragonflies in our subdivision in lower antipolo, the big red ones, the greens, the blues, and the tiny red ones…but normally more during a wet summer

atbnorge…our neighbor had a sampaloc tree back in the early 90s who was also a host to several hundred fireflies, it was a surreal sight during those notorious “brown-out” spells

By: deedee

deedee — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:04:41 +0000

two dead ones last week. One hanging from a lace curtain at home and the other one on top of my office table.

By: atbnorge

atbnorge — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:20:21 +0000

@jackbkk, we have fireflies in the hills of Antipolo (not in town, though). In our small farm between Antipolo and Teresa, I once saw a small sampaloc tree in the evening lit up with thousands of fireflies, it was amazing!

Dragonflies…love them to bits! I and my childhood friend Mila skewered them with tingting then barbecued them, hehehe…Then I said to Mila “Eat or we’re no longer friends!” I love the red dragonflies which we called “tutubing karayom”, I haven’t seen them for more than two decades now…I and my elder brother went spider hunting and foraged whatever wild fruits we could find—macopa, bignay, bayabas, mansanitas, and susong kalabaw!

By: Blaise

Blaise — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:40:34 +0000

Here in the south of the metro, I could still see dragonflies fly around once in a while. They used to be in abundance, there were a lot of tutubing karayom and tutubing kalabaw, in different colors.

Me and my cousins would catch them with their wings with our two fingers. Oh, those were the days! Summers then were not as hot as it is now.

By: jakbkk

jakbkk — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:05:43 +0000

tell me where i can see FIREFLIES in Luzon or the Philippines?