Several of you have asked within or outside of the CalOdes group about plants in backyard ponds for dragonflies. Since Dflies don't have host plants like...
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Yes, raccoons love to eat water hyacinth. I'd suggest something other than water hyacinth for your pond. Probably best would be something rooted that they...
I used to have larvae in my small pond, which had (non-native) water hyacinth. I've tried to add a few other plants of various sorts, but they've mostly...
Responding to Kathy's remarks, I have a small urban pond, about 800 gallons. It is very much a 'family' pond. That means it has to suit my wife and self, and...
Is the equisetum in pots? How is it anchored? My pond is also around 2.5' deep, and approximately 4 x 5 give or take. It's also under a podocarpus tree, so it...
The equisetum was/is in 5 gal.pots but over the 6 or so years they have spread and taken over the one end of the pond. Now I hack it back once a year to keep...
At the south end of Lake Merced in San Francisco today, 2/5/05, I had an immature female Pacific Forktail flying around and landing on the concrete bridge. I...
Hi all, Dave and I are up in WA, and no, we haven't seen any dragonflies, but we have had two dragonfly 'experiences' that I wanted to share with you: One was...
February 12, 2005 San Diego County Harry & Gloria Conley During a phone call, they mentioned seeing a ‘blue darner’ type dragonfly while camping in Anza...
Just a reminder, requested by Treasurer Jerrell Daigle, for all members of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas to send in their dues. If you haven't joined,...
Paul Opler's annual butterfly class in the Sierra, will be taking place this year on June 20-24. Doug Vaughan and Doris Kretschmer took the class last year,...
Hi all, Got the first odes of the season today, at Mouth-of-Cottonwood Creek Wildlife Area in south central Shastsa County. There's a small shallow pond at...
Hi all, On Wed, Feb 24 I had about a dozen Familiar Bluet in a ditch with several of then mating. On Sat, Feb 26 I had a lone Common Green Darner in the...
Hi! With it's being such a lovely day today, Dave and I decided that while we were out we'd check a few local spots for Odonata. First we stopped in Sebastopol...
Hi all, Had a glider (Pantala sp.) today that I would have called a Wandering Glider by the look of it but would have expected Spot-winged Glider by the early ...
Oh for instant 'replay'! But, the early dates for both species are actually pretty close: Wandering glider - 03/22/03 Spot-winged glider - 03/09/03 Whichever...
Not sure about the significance here but while birding the Wister Unit of the Salton Sea NWR, I saw my "life" Red Saddlebags. Also, in the area were several...
Dave and I drove up Pine Flat Rd to see how the burned area was recovering and to see what was growing/on the wing. It was 76 out and calm and the wildflowers...
Good point! As Doug has pointed out I had forgotten the date! This was this past Saturday, March 5, 2005. ________________________________ Steve Abbott ...
From looking at the file that Kathy has. You broke the early date record by several days- CONGRATULATIONS. The old record was 03/09/03. Doug ... From: "Steve...
Group, Taking advantage of the warm weather, David and I went to San Bruno Mountain in San Mateo County on Thursday and had 2 California Darners at the top....
Hi all, Yesterday, George Sappington and I went to Mouth-of-Cottonwood Creek Wildlife Area in south-central Shasta County. We found lots of Black-fronted and...
Group, David and I took advantage of what looked like a clear spot amongst the fog of Saturday and headed down to the open space preserves in Santa Clara and...
