Hi All: I spent a couple of hours this morning (03/29; sunny and clear, light breeze, ~80 F) along the Wild Horse Pass stream just S. of Phoenix, AZ. Ode...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Mar 4, 2008 1:21 am
Hello all, I'm working on the yearly 'clean-up' on the distribution maps and charts. There's some confusion as to whether there is any record for Giant Darner,...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Mar 2, 2008 12:49 am
Since Peter Siminski's CA Dancer sighting was just about 2 months earlier than previous early date (April) and the Paiute Dancer was just about a whole month...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Feb 28, 2008 6:11 pm
Hi everyone, We're already heard from ~13-14 folks who are interested in attending the blitz - some from NY, AZ, OR, and of course CA! Here's the text I just...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Feb 19, 2008 3:34 am
Hello everyone! Plans are slowly brewing for the CalOdes Blitz IV - all Californians, & other folks who are interested (and especially you southwest folks) are...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Feb 16, 2008 6:09 pm
Yesterday was a Filigree Skimmer day - no, no one in CA found a new one, but I was sent a letter about a 2nd female photographed in 2004 in CA. I'll paste the...
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John C. Abbott
odelister
Feb 14, 2008 6:46 pm
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...
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Roger Racut
jeepney204
Feb 8, 2008 3:20 am
Hi there, hiked behind the Superstitions on February 2, 2008. The Variegated Measdowhawks were spotted on the Second Water Trail just West of the Black Mesa...
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Intl Odonata Research...
wmauffray
Jan 23, 2008 12:03 pm
Dear Odonatist: To make room at the FSCA/IORI collection, I am having a clearance sale on all back issues of Odonotologica (back issues from the beginning...
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SoWestOdes@yahoogroup...
Jan 20, 2008 5:46 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the SoWestOdes group. File : /SW flight...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Jan 20, 2008 5:33 am
Hi Pierre and all, Yes, that is way early date for AZ; old date was 3/13/AZ. But it's even early for the whole SouthWest, old date was from NM - 2/21/rl...
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pierredeviche
Jan 20, 2008 2:55 am
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...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Jan 17, 2008 8:31 pm
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...
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Robert A. Behrstock
rbehrstock
Jan 17, 2008 7:55 pm
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...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Jan 14, 2008 7:10 pm
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. ...
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Bruno Bergmans
brunobergmans
Jan 13, 2008 12:02 am
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...
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Dennis Paulson
dennisrpaulson
Jan 12, 2008 2:11 am
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....
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pierredeviche
Jan 12, 2008 1:41 am
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...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Jan 11, 2008 1:44 am
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...
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Dennis Paulson
dennisrpaulson
Jan 7, 2008 9:42 pm
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 ...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Dec 31, 2007 3:09 am
Thanks to Robert Larsen for reminding me about these new NM records: For Santa Fe County Jerry Hatfield had photographed Libellula quadrimaculata and Libellula...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Dec 31, 2007 1:06 am
Hello everyone, Below please find the new California and greater Southwest records that have come to light this last quarter of 2007: *Scientific Name:*/...
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Robert Larsen
Roblrsn
Dec 26, 2007 8:14 pm
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...
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Douglas Aguillard
aguillard2469
Dec 25, 2007 4:38 pm
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....
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pierredeviche
Dec 25, 2007 12:45 am
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...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Dec 21, 2007 6:51 pm
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...
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chris kline
kline_at_pine
Dec 19, 2007 3:21 pm
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...
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pierredeviche
Dec 16, 2007 11:26 pm
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...
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Kathy &/or Dave Biggs
bigsnest
Dec 12, 2007 4:43 pm
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...
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pierredeviche
Dec 3, 2007 3:23 am
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...
