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...
This is a list of species found at Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada by Rich Bailowitz this year as part of a survey he was involved in: Anax junius Common...
Hi All: I spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon (12/15: Sunny, calm, 60 F; 1:15-3:30 PM) along the Wild Horse Pass stream just S. of Phoenix, AZ, where...
Hi all, Response has been a little slow for volunteers to lead dragonfly walks for the '08 season. Yes, I tend to schedule way ahead! Please check out the...
Hi all, I've got two copies of the Dragonflies of North America Color and Learn CD where the label and jewel-case are not perfect, and therefore I can't sell...
Hi All: With night temperatures hovering around freezing for the past few days, the odds of anything left out there did not seem all that good. And yet... a...
Just wanting to wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, & Best Festivus. I also want to thank you for belonging to this Group and making it a success....
I was reading the Behrstock, Danforth, and Upson paper on the Chihuahua State in the Bulletin of American Odonatology which arrived last Monday. I remembered...
Hello everyone, Below please find the new California and greater Southwest records that have come to light this last quarter of 2007: *Scientific Name:*/...
Thanks to Robert Larsen for reminding me about these new NM records: For Santa Fe County Jerry Hatfield had photographed Libellula quadrimaculata and Libellula...
Hello, odonatophiles. A colleague of mine, nature writer and photographer Whit Bronaugh, just sent me a copy of his recently published book and asked that I ...
In answer to a post/query by Dennis Paulson I checked my Sightings websites for winter records that might include behavior, etc. *February 3, 2007* *_Riverside...
Hi All: Intrigued by a couple of recent postings, my wife and I spent a couple of hours this afternoon (01/11: 2:30-4:15 PM; 60 F, sunny, no wind) along the...
HI, Pierre. That's good information. Indeed they look too fresh to have emerged in, say, Idaho in August and been hanging around southern Arizona ever since....
Hello, In November I had the opportunity to visit California with my parents. As expected we did not see a lot of dragonflies anymore. Nevertheless we were...
Hi all, It turns out that there is some debate on the ID of this female damsel, so please don't change the early flight date for Rambur's forktail for now. ...
Dear Odesters, First, I apologize for a three list cross posting. Please note the following event: DRAGONFLY DAYS 2008 From May 15-18, Estero Llano Grande...
Hello all, I've started adding events to the Programs and Field Trips link from my CA Dragonfly Website. If you are leading a trip, giving a program, or know...
Hi All: I spent a couple of hours today (01/19; 1:30-3:15 PM; sunny, calm, 65 F) along the Wild Horse Pass stream just S. of Phoenix, AZ, where four species...
