coolest bug on the planet

has to be the dragonfly, right? where i lived as a kid, dragonflies were everywhere, usually close to water, cruising the evening sky snapping up mosquitoes. i'll admit that i don't know much about them except through observation. i read recently that dragonflies have been around for more than 300 million years and that back in the day they had a wingspan of two and half feet. now that's a big bug. i draw the occasional dragonfly and i like to draw them larger than life (nowadays). here's a detail to show scale...