Hello all, The NEW Odonata Central is up and running. :-) Please take some time to acquaint yourself with it (intro. letter and links in message below). I will...
*County/State/USA Records for Southwest Region, 3rd Quarter 2007 Below is data that has been sent in for new records. If the record has no "OC#" then please go...
If you are a member of DSA or had registered with OdonataCentral earlier, you will have already received this email and I apologize for the duplication. For...
Dear odesters, As Kathy Biggs was kind enough to point out to me, there was a slight error in my Dragonfly Days post. The 9th Annual Dragonfly Days hosted by...
Greetings, Had our final dragonfly walk of the season this morning. Initially it appeared it was going to be a total bust! At the start of the walk it was 60...
Hi All: A relatively good variety of species were still present this morning, 10/07, at the Phoenix, AZ, Rio Salado Wetlands. Some pictures are posted at: ...
Some of you have experienced problems uploading your new distribution records to Odonata Central (OC). You need to login before you can submit a record and you...
This is an excerpt from Argia. I hope MANY CalOders and SoWestOders will immediatley mark their calendars and plan to attend. Cheers!! Kathy -- California...
"Now onward to Oregon. The 2008 annual meeting, to be hosted by Steve Valley and Jim Johnson, is tentatively set for the first weekend of August in Bend,...
Hi All: I checked out a couple of places around Phoenix, AZ, this weekend: 11/13, AM: Salt River (= SR; Phon Sutton and Coon Buff Rec. Areas); 11/14, AM:...
Hi All: I was thinking a month ahead when writing the body of my email of yesterday! Dates of observations were 10/13-14, NOT 11/13-14! Cheers, Pierre Deviche,...
Just read and look at the images. I found this extremely interesting. http://www.solarexpert.com/photography/dragonfly_photography.html Douglas Aguillard San...
Hi All: I spent a couple of hours this morning, 10/17, in the Wild Horse Pass area just S. of Phoenix, AZ. The habitat consists for the most part of dry flat...
Hi All: Dany, Eyal, and I spent this breezy morning, 10/21, at the Phoenix, AZ, Rio Salado Wetlands where we found a reasonable diversity of species. A few...
Hi all, I'm tickled to find out that some folks are giving out the coloring pages from my and Tim Manolis' Dragonfly Coloring book CD for Halloween treats! ...
Hi All: My wife and I checked a couple of places this past weekend, 10/27-28: 10/27, PM: Wild Horse Pass (= WH) stream just S. of Phoenix, AZ; 10/28, AM:...
Hi All: Eyal Shohat and I spent yesterday (11/10) visiting Kearny L. (= KL, near Winkelman) and the San Pedro River (= SP) at Dudleyville, AZ, where we clocked...
Hi Pierre and all, Yes, those are both new late flight dates for AZ, and the Sooty Dance is a new late flight date for the greater SW. Too bad you didn't get...
Hi All: Today, 11/18 (10AM - 2PM), Rich Bailowitz, Doug Danforth, and I visited Kearny L. and the nearby Gila River at Kelvin Bridge, AZ, where we observed a...
I had a Shadow Darner female flying over the lawn NEXT to the pond yesterday - in the fog! She totally ignored the pond and appeared to be feeding. First...
Hi all, There's been quite a 'behind the scenes' discussion going on with lots of emails and folks checking specimens, all about trying to figure out if the...
Some of you met Ed last year at the CalOdes Blitz, and others at the DSA AZ'07 or elsewhere. I thought you'd enjoy reading about his unusual 'field experience'...
Hi Everyone, 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...
Our Odonata season here in southeastern may be at its end. A cold front moving down the Southern High Plains clashed with tropical moisture over northern ...
Hi All: I took advantage of the great weather during this past long weekend to visit several places around Phoenix, AZ, and find out what species are left....
Hello, all. Sorry for cross posting, but no one has figured out a way to avoid this yet, I guess. For a field guide to western North American odonates, I still...
I've finally gotten around to adding the scans of specimens I brought home from the DSA meeting to my SW Website. Serpent Ringtail (Erpetogomphus lampropetus...
Hi All: Before putting the net aside until next spring, I paid a last visit to two locations around Phoenix, AZ, today (12/02), wondering whether there would...