Catherine Erbaugh brought me some dragonfly exuviae she and Francis Fikany had collected from Cibola Spring on July 20, 2005. Catherine had visited the ...
I hit the dragonfly jackpot again today, there must've been over 30 individuals just around the house, and I shot many of them. Western Meadowhawks are by far...
On 28 July 2005 we went to the smallest National Wildlife Refuge in the country, Two Ponds NWR in Arvada, Jefferson County, CO Below is our list Spotted...
Hi Lynn, The best resource for updated county lists is John Abbott's (University of Texas, Austin) web site found by doing a search for "Odonata Central" then...
Actually, I was kind of disappointed with John's maps. I was checking out the Baja California records/range maps, and he has listed some very strange species,...
Hello Lynn, Robert and all CA & SW Oders, Yes, the route that Robert mentions below will work well for checking our lists against known Odonata distribution....
Hi Robert, Lynn & all, Like you pointed out, it is almost impossible to tell I. cervula and I. damula apart in the field, however I've noticed that cervula has...
Robert Larson wrote: "The Pacific Forktail is always a little iffy as I can not tell it apart from the Plains Forktail unless I have their appendages under the...
On 15 July 2005 we saw the following odes at Golden Pondes and Pella Crossing, Boulder Co., CO I only gave numbers seen for the special ones. Common Green...
AN UPDATED INFORMAL WORKING LIST OF ODONATA FOR DONA ANA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Updated: August 12, 2005 - R. Larsen The Dragonflies (Anisoptera): Common Green...
DINE'TAH TANI-L'AI (NAVAJO NATION ODONATA) An informal compilation of Tani-l'ai (Odonata) of the Dine'tah (Navajo Nation Homeland) showing a list of ...
Greetings, Had our August dragonfly walk today. Mostly sunny, temps 80's, 1.8 inches of rain yesterday. The monsoons are in full swing! What we saw today: ...
A UPDATED WORKING LIST OF ODONATA (DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES) FOR BERNALILLO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Updated: August 14, 2005 - R. Larsen There are 21 species noted...
On Monday August 15, 2005 we visited St. Vrain State Park, Weld Co., CO (about 6 miles from the Boulder Co. border) and saw the following odes: Blue-eyed...
Hi all, I've been meaning to tell all of you about this WONDERFUL new book. I can't image that anyone could be on this group and not find it a wonderful...
The Friends of Bitter Lake's 5th Annual Dragonfly Festival was the largest to date and held on the Bitter Lake Refuge. The Friends had broad coordinated ...
Robert Larsen wrote: "The Friends had broad coordinated participation from the NM Department of Tourism, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Savilleta, Bosque Del ...
The following new records were made in or reported in August (it was a busy month!): Black Saddlebags, Tramea lacerata Mono County Dechambeau Ponds, just north...
It's, unfortunately, getting towards the end of the Summer Flight season. I noticed that Lynn Monore's Eastern Amberwing on Aug. 30th was new late flight data...
On 20 Aug 2005 we looked along a short section of the Big Thompson River, Moraine Park, Rocky Mountain National Park at about 8200' for odes. Though the water...
Back to Golden Ponds, Longmont, CO on 30 Aug 2005 to check on odes. Here is what was flying. Orange Bluet -- first ode of the day at 8:40 am, a male and a...
Howdy all, Had a good dragonfly walk today. First time in almost three years I've had a walk interrupted by rain. We took shelter under an overhang, but then...
FYI: Kathy Ps. I've added several new links to Greg's great images to the SW site. -- California Dragonflies http://www.sonic.net/dragonfly Southwest...
Sorry gang, I forgot that I couldn't forward messages to the group. The photo mentioned is the one used on p.130 in SW book. I've deleted that photo from the...
Hi all, On the CA Dragonfly Blitz, Ray Bruun was using his Belomo 10X Triplet Loupe that he's mentioned to the CA group before. I tried it out and was...
Last chance to help Albert Burchsted in NY who needs specimens for DNA studies for examining phylogenetic relationships on the bicoastal species such as Widow...
I noticed the Yahoo web site pick of the day is the "Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana" the digital 63 volume work that contains Phillip P. Calvert's ...
Many of you are probably familiar with the term at least -- blogging. Blogs are web journals that take many forms and cover many subjects -- from politics to...