Kicker: A dragon flyby

NICK EICHER, HOST: Hey, so we just got back from the beach yesterday, the low country South Carolina, and not a moment too soon. Just one step ahead of an unwanted intruder by the name of Debby.

But beachgoers in Rhode Island—speaking of unwanted intruders—they had to deal with something that called to mind a Biblical plague.

AUDIO: Get away from me! (screams)

This was late July, and the screaming was about a cloud of dragonflies that’d swarmed the beach.

Yep, dragonflies, but by the hundreds of thousands! Sound here from the social media account GetLucky, this is on the X platform.

AUDIO: Why did we come today?

Evidently the dragonflies came today because they were looking for a new habitat as summer heat dries the ponds out and so were just passing through.

MAST: Yeah, make it snappy, or you know what, stay. I'll leave.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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