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...
Here are some new late flight season dates for New Mexico: Blue-fronted Dancer (Argia apicalis), October 9, 2008 on the Bosque del Apache NWR in Socorro...
I visited the Spring River on Wednesday October 22, 2008 just before a cold front brought the first freezing temperatures to southeastern New Mexico. ...
We had our first morning frost on October 23rd and 24th, but some Odes are still out: Spring River, Loveless Park Roswell, New Mexico Chaves County, 29 Oct....
I am loving the reports of what's still being seen In AZ (speaking enviously from Colorado, where we've had the first hard frost). Is this typical of your...
11/07/08, 1 PM – 3 PM: Wild Horse Pass stream, Gila River Indian Res., Maricopa Co., AZ Sunny, light breeze, 80 F Same 19 species seen as 10/28: Flame...
Does anyone in the group have information about the effect on dragonflies or other life forms of aerial seeding of clouds with silver iodide? PG&E is starting...
A recent paper published in the journal Fisheries concludes that nearly 40 percent of all species of freshwater and anadromous fishes in North America (Canada,...
Hi all, I have some 'book store return' copies of /Dragonflies of California and //Common Dragonflies of the Southwest /that I want to offer to any of you...
-- 11/15/08 10:00 AM – 1 PM: Hassayampa River, Maricopa Co., AZ A1. Nature Conservancy Preserve; A2. Nearby rest area along I60 1:45 PM – 3 PM: B. Morgan...