Late Summer Dragonfly

The Odonata order comprises dragonflies and damselflies.  Dragonflies are well-regarded in Japanese culture - on par with Japan's and other cultures attitude towards butterflies.  In western cultures and in early United States, the dragonfly was understood to either sew your eyelids shut during sleep, or simply pluck your eyes out entirely.  There are no documented reports of anyone ever waking up to his or her eyelids sewn shut, but one must be ever vigilant.  These creatures of the "night" are only waiting for their chance, and then it's off with our eyeballs.