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Michigan Odonotes: Golden-Winged Skimmer Incursion into Michigan.
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A place for my notes on the Dragonflies and Damselflies in Michigan, as well as tips on collecting, observing and anything else that is even remotely related. Thursday, August 01, 2013. Golden-Winged Skimmer Incursion into Michigan. In Jackson Co., courtesy of Craig Robson. Earlier this summer, Rick Nirschl collected the first Michigan record of Libellula auripennis. On another front, the Xerces Society has a new program out called " Dragonfly Pond Watch Project. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Trave...
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Michigan Odonotes: June 2013
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A place for my notes on the Dragonflies and Damselflies in Michigan, as well as tips on collecting, observing and anything else that is even remotely related. Tuesday, June 18, 2013. A quick visit to Drummond Island. And features some plants adapted to live in the rigorous environment. A bunch of us visited the renowned Maxton Plains alvar, part of which is owned by the Nature Conservancy. The highlight for me was when Jorie caught a female Williamsonia fletcheri. After photographing it eating a crane fly.
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Michigan Odonotes: July 2013
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A place for my notes on the Dragonflies and Damselflies in Michigan, as well as tips on collecting, observing and anything else that is even remotely related. Sunday, July 21, 2013. Back to Normal at Pittsfield Preserve. Dragonfly paradise for now. The skimmers were in great abundance at the wetland sites, with Libellula pulchella. Being the most numerous. Also in abundance were many Blue dashers, Pachydiplax longipennis. An old P. lydia. At the preserve. Maybe there will be more there next year.
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Michigan Odonotes: August 2015
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A place for my notes on the Dragonflies and Damselflies in Michigan, as well as tips on collecting, observing and anything else that is even remotely related. Sunday, August 30, 2015. A second Michigan Locality for the Giant Spreadwing. For many years, a few of us wondered if and when Archilestes grandis, the. I carefully moved closer and snagged the specimen with my net. Wow! So, naturally, I had to wonder where this female came from. It had to be relatively close by, but where? So, this makes two local...
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Michigan Odonotes: April 2015
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A place for my notes on the Dragonflies and Damselflies in Michigan, as well as tips on collecting, observing and anything else that is even remotely related. Friday, April 17, 2015. Some catching up to do! Ringed Boghaunter eating a tipulid fly. Time flies, doesn't it? In Michigan from the W side of the state to the E side. Previously, Kent Co. was the furthest S we had seen this species. Last summer was also a banner year for the Painted Skimmer, Libellula semifasciata. Work progresses towards writing ...
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Urban Dragon Hunters: February 2015
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A Bog Just Off the Interstate. During a trip west this past summer, I reviewed maps for possible dragonfly spots near I-94 in Michigan. I found a park named Bishop's Bog Preserve. In Portage, just south of Kalamazoo. Bogs aren't generally easily accessible and I thought this might be a good break in the multi-hour drive. Sign showing the adjacent parks in Portage, MI. On my first visit I started from Schrier Park. Which also has a nice loop boardwalk in the bog adjacent to West Lake and also a marsh trail.
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Urban Dragon Hunters: December 2014
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When Comet Darners Attack. And I made a visit to the Fox Science Preserve. Outside Ann Arbor on July 4, 2014. Earlier in the season (late May) I found Painted Skimmers ( L. semifasciata. Which was collected for a second county voucher, many Carolina Saddlebags ( T. carolina. And a couple Comet Darners ( A. longipes. This last species would be a new species for the county if we could voucher it on this outing. Male Painted Skimmer at this location in May. Mark O'Brien in the vegetation. DSA = 25 years!
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Urban Dragon Hunters: June is Gomphid Time
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June is Gomphid Time. This year I wanted to confirm flying adults of a couple species of clubtails for Washtenaw County. Cobra Clubtail ( Gomphus vastus. And Riverine Clubtail ( Stylurus amnicola. Adults had been photographed by others in past years. I started searching May 23rd at Hudson Mills Metropark. Along the Huron River. Several exuviae and one emerging Rusty Snaketail ( Ophiogomphus rupinsulensis. Emerging Rusty Snaketail ( O. rupinsulensis. And will be checked by another person or two. On June 1...
