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...
Hello All: Two male STRIPED SADDLEBAGS were at one of the ASU Research Park urban ponds (Tempe, Maricopa Co., AZ) earlier today, possibly representing a new...
Hello All: Taking advantage of the great weather and long weekend, I checked a few places around Phoenix in the past three days. Numbers of individuals were...
Just wanted to tell everyone that UCDavis Bohart Museum of Entomology is now selling dragonfly T-shirts, based on a scan of the White-belted Ringtail,...
12/02/08: 2 PM – 3:15 PM: ASU Research Park (Tempe, Maricopa Co., AZ) Sunny, calm, 74 F 7 species seen: - * Common Green Darner: 3 inc. 1 F ovipositing - *...
Hi Pierre and all, Yes, those are all new late dates, and late for entire SW area as well! So glad you are reporting these so we can record them. Wish there...
Hi All: To give it what may have been the last shot before hanging the bug net until next year, I checked a couple of locations in Maricopa Co. yesterday...
12/13/08, 12:30 PM – 3 PM: Morgan City Wash (near L. Pleasant), Maricopa Co., AZ Partly cloudy, breezy, 68 F 9 species seen: - Flame Skimmer: 3 M, 1 F - Red...
Good afternoon, As you can see below, I am leaving BTA. Which means our fallback dragonfly walk leader is leaving. I'd love to twist some of your arms...
12/20/08: 1 – 2 PM Salt River: Rio Salado Wetlands Restoration Project, Phoenix, Maricopa Co., AZ Sunny, Calm, 60 F 7 species seen: - Common Green Darner: 1 ...