Greetings - Thanks to everyone who helped me out during my few days in the Phoenix area. I took photos of some of the odes I saw during my stay. You can view...
This evening (Wed, Aug. 6th), while eating dinner outside at our McCloud home on the SE side of Mt. Shasta, we were surprised to notice many darners heading UP...
Just a response to Kathy's last sentence. There are periods in Washington in midsummer when no Common Green Darners are seen, presumably after the spring...
FYI - this is an email from the worldwide Odonata-L group. If you keep any specimens or exuviae, it has good information. Kathy ... Chris: For adults in...
... Dear Kathy Biggs, My name is Eben Gering, I am a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. I'm studying the evolutionary dynamics of invasive...
Dear Odesters, As two of you have requested this post, here it is. While working for USFWS last month, I found a male Narrow-striped Forceptail (Aphylla...
Hello all, I've put the scans of the specimens collected in a folder on CalOdes: http://pets.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/CalOdes/photos/browse/ad03?c= The folder...
I added some of our own snapshots to the CalOdes photo file "Modoc Blitz": http://pets.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/CalOdes/photos/browse/ad03?b=65&m=t&o=0 Such...
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...
The 2008 Dragonfly Festival at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge will be held on September 6th & 7th at the new visitor center. Information on the...
Information on the 2008 Dragonfly Festival at Bitter Lake can be found at: [www.friendsofbitterlake.com]. The URL did not go through on the last message. ...
Here are the new county and state records for June, July, and August in New Mexico. I wnat to post them as I am starting to lose track of them. I encourage...
Greetings, Pete Spino was visiting from San Diego yesterday and left me a list of the odes and leps that he saw. BTW, Pierre Deviche will be leading the...
The 7th(?)Annual Dragonfly Festival in Roswell, New Mexico held 6-7 September 2008, was well attended with tours quickly filled long before the start of the...
Parker Canyon Schoolhouse September 17,2008 Today Rich Bailowitz and I hit Parker Canyon at the old schoolhouse in Santa Cruz County. We had 25 species there...
Congratulations Doug and Rich!! I was just thinking that I hadn't had to add a species to the SW website in a bit ;-) . I'll grab the photo for the website...
http://southwestdragonflies.net/swanisoptera.html#lampropeltis I've added some images and descriptive words about the Straight-tipped Ringtail, Erpetogomphus...
Three days ago in Sonora Rich Bailowitz spotted a skimmer he called Libellula fornesis(Eight-spotted Skimmer). It lacked black wing tips and we had just seen...
Good evening Ode enthusiasts, Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to COLLECT one of the 'oddball' 12/8/Whitetail 'spotted-winged' skimmers! If you...
Over the past week James Stuart of the Conservation Services Division of the New Mexico Department of Game & Fish has sent me photographs taken near his office...
