http://www.watergardenersinternational.org/journal/4-2/kb/page1.html Happy May Day! The link above is to a magazine article in Water Gardener's Online Journal,...
Hi all, Thanks to Dennis's new book, /Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West/, folks have been checking their prior specimens and photographs and we have...
Hi Dennis and all, Your range maps are GREAT. They tell us where things should occur! Hope my message didn't make it sound like I meant otherwise, but point ...
This afternoon (2 May) I checked a seasonal pond in Anderson Lake County Park in Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County. The pond is reached by parking at the north...
Hello, all. I'm sure you realize that the range maps in my book mark the edges of known ranges, and there are lots of counties within the indicated ranges for...
I've put together a photographic table of female Pacific Forktails showing teneral, immature, and adult stages of the gynomorphic and andromorphic phases....
Hi, Ray. That lower right one is outside the variation I have attributed to mature andromorphs. I usually think of them as ending up looking like a male,...
Ray et al, For "Desert" in my previous message, substitute "Mexican." Sometimes I forget the correct common names! Desert Forktail can be included in the...
May 8, 2009 Santa Ysabel Creek, Clevenger Canyon North Trail, San Dieguito River Park, 12:00-2:15, clear, light breezes, 84 degrees. American Rubyspot 1 ...
May 10, 2009 Riverside County Peter Siminski Dos Palmas Oasis and Fish Ponds, Dos Palmas Preserve, Elev. -100'; 7:50-13:30, 80-100F, cloudless, calm to light...
Greetings all, I stopped by Hudson Road in the Lower Shasta River Canyon this afternoon. It was sunny, with temps in the mid 70's. I noticed a few odes in the...
May 10, 2009 Small pond on private property near Julian, elevation approximately 4000 feet, 10:30-12:15, sunny, light breezes, 75-79 degrees. Black Spreadwing...
Date: May 9, 2009 Location: Sunol Regional Wilderness Alameda County, CA Observers: John Hall, David Edwards David and I followed Alameda Creek downstream from...
Just a note on one of the species mentioned by Gary. Lestes stultus is unknown from Mexico, and from its occurrence in San Diego County, it ought to be...
Hi! For Mother's Day, we drove into the upper (most northern) area of Trinity County, accessing the area from HWY 3 out of Yreka. We were especially looking...
FYI - It's a GREAT festival! - Hey y'all, Apologies for the repetition, to anyone who is on more than one odonate e-mail listserv... This past Wednesday, May...
May 14, 2009 Santa Margarita River, east and west of the Sandia Creek Drive bridge crossing, North of Fallbrook, 11:30-1:30, clear, light breeze, 72-75...
May 16, 2009 Riverside County Peter Siminski CDFG San Jacinto Wildlife Area, Elev. 1430', N33.87209, W-117.11984; 8:20-11:50, 70-90F, cloudless, light air. ...
Del Puerto Creek, Stanislaus Co. 16 May 2009; 8-11 a.m.; mostly birding but ~1 hour odeing; warm & calm with Rita Carratello California Dancer 2 for sure,...
I spent the weekend (16-17 May) looking for birds and odes in Modoc County, with visits to Goose Lake, Surprise Valley, Modoc NWR, Crowder Flat Road on the...
Greetings all, I had the opportunity to stop by Hudson Road this afternoon. It was sunny, hot, mid 90's with an afternoon breeze picking up. Fair amount of ode...
It is time for another issue of ARGIA and I would like to solicit any articles, notes, or other information that you think the readers might enjoy. You can...
While not the best time to scope odes on the east side of the sierras, I did search a few spots while on a butterfly-collecting trip with my wife I was hoping...
Hello all, We too had the opportunity to stop by the Shasta River at Hudson Road about 8 miles north of Yreka yesterday while en route to Portland and then...
Hi all, On Sunday we were invited to a dinner picnic along the Laguna de Santa Rosa, off Frei Rd., NW of Sebastopol. At around 3 pm we went down to the Laguna...
Hi folks: Kathy's post about seeing a swarm of Rhionaeschna on Sunday is intriguing, as I observed a similar phenomenon in my backyard this past weekend ...
Observed odes at park from 0900 to 1100. Familiar bluet several Vivid dancer several Pacific forktail few Common green darner several Blue-eyed darner several ...
In my previous post I mistakenly typed familiar bluet instead of arroyo/tule bluet. I did not capture this damsel to positively identify it. My apologies. ...
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