Hi, Chris. These are Seaside Dragonlets, Erythrodiplax berenice, a common feature of the coast on both sides of Mexico, all through the Caribbean, and up the...
October 29, 2005 Santa Clara County J Hall, D Edwards Monte Bello OSP pond Northern Spreadwing 1 Familiar Bluet 4 Mosaic Darner,sp 1 Blue-eyed Darner 1 ...
Dear CalOders, While I can appreciate people being excited by seeing Odes in different parts of this Country and the World. This is a California only group. ...
All, Temperatures around 70 are keeping the Odes going here at Pinnacles National Monument. I just saw my first immature gynomorphic female Pacific forktail....
Record #6370 Celithemis elisa (Hagen) (Calico Pennant) United States Colorado: Larimer Co. Berthoud, CO July 13, 2005 lat/long: N 40.272078° W 105.15901°...
Nov. 19 (tomorrow!) is the latest date we have recorded for Blue-eyed Darner for CA and the whole SW. My girlfriend just sent me a great pix of a female...
Hello All, Doug Aguillard is the owner of this CalOdes group and it is his decision not to allow discussions of trips outside of CA for this group. But I'd...
Today, at a small pond in the Tijuana River Valley near Sunset Rd. &
Hollister, I had up to 4 Blue-eyed Darners and 5 Common Green Darners.
Thanks to Kathy for...
CalOders, Please let me clarify my position. This is a California Dragonfly group. The
area of concern is California. If you see something nearby California,...
Today, I went back to the small pond in the Tijuana River Valley to see the 3 Blue-eyed Darners that I had yesterday, and I saw as many as 5 today, along with...
Hi gang, Hope everyone enjoyed the holiday. I went out to remove some leaves from my backyard pond this morning. I moved a rock that had tumbled in the...
Dave, If the nymph/larva was an inch and a half long, it pretty much had to be a darner. A Flame Skimmer larva is about 22 mm long (less than an inch). You can...
November 26, 2005 Santa Clara County John Hall, David Edwards Monte Bello OSP Pond Spotted Spreadwing 2 Familiar Bluet 1 Striped Meadowhawk 1 We also walked...
Hi all, Glad to still be getting reports! Some new late dates in the most recent posts: November 26, 2005 Santa Clara County John Hall, David Edwards Monte...
I havent posted in months. Well this was the first summer of my new pond and it was so fantastic. Words arent enough. But now on to november. Last week I...
Hi, Nicole. Striped Meadowhawks are one of the latest fliers, so they're a logical species to be still flying. I would ask you a few questions about the...
Hi All, Somehow both my computer, and now my website show the 2005 Sightings site as only going back in time as far as June 24, 2005. Because of this, I've...
Kathy Even though this machine doesn't have the archive yet for 2005, try here if you need to see old pages. So far I only find your site listed back to ...
My son had an idea, if any of you visited the 2005 Sightings site in the last week or so, there may be a copy of it in your browser's history. If you have time...
December 9, 2005 Santa Clara County John Hall, David Edwards Monte Bello OSP pond Spotted Spreadwing 3 2m,1f in ovipositing position Female was alone but...
Hi, people. I've been writing about Ischnura, and when looking in my collection at specimens of Desert Forktail, Ischnura barberi, I found an amazing amount of...
Hello, all. This paper, by C. H. Kennedy, is a classical odonate paper, including both taxonomy and natural history, with beautiful anatomical drawings. ... ...
Hello, all. I was just looking through my photos of female California Dancers, Argia agrioides, to try to determine variation. Right now we don't know if this...
Happy New Year everyone! Anyone having late sightings this year, please let me know. I'm forwarding this message on as I know many of us like to visit TX and ...
Hello everyone, Happy New Year! I've resurrected *MOST* of the 2005 sightings site, but in a few cases, I know the early date for the damselfly species, but...
Hi all, These are the dates and bugs I need more data on..... June 2, 2005 *Cordulia shurtleffi American Emerald April 9, 2005 *Perithemis intensa Mexican...