An old story courtesy of Roldy of Kunming:

Roldy told me that there when he was a child he and his friends would always try to catch dragonflies. There were three ways to catch dragonflies:

1) Chase after them with nets.

2) Capture a female, tie a string to its tail, stake down the string, catch the males when they come to mate.

3) Capture a male, put mud on it, capture the males when they try to mate with the male (mud confuses them).

He said that often there would be 20 or so Chinese boys with nets chasing after one dragonfly! A scene I can only imagine.