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Common Whitetail

Posted on Jun 30, 2016

Common Whitetail

Can you identify this extra close friend? Here we have the Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) dragonfly with this male being cooperative in hand for a moment as I took a look at those eyes and that face. Birds in hand look very much like…birds…you know, the ones we see from afar with our eyes, binoculars, and spotting scopes. Dragonflies often look so very different as the features we see while they are flitting through the air – stripes on the thorax or abdomen, colored wings, an overall body shade – are lost in the details of their complex face, head, and even...

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Dragonflies and damselflies weekend

Posted on Jun 2, 2014

Dragonflies and damselflies weekend

Twan and I spent the weekend searching for and netting various dragonflies and damselflies across Chautauqua County in a “divide and conquer” sweep of as many sites as we could hit. The number of natural areas we have to search is overwhelming. While surveying we also recorded birds, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians…you get the picture. It’s a sensory overload! Last year we added several new odonate county records in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Warren and more. This included the Delta-spotted Spiketail mere minutes from RTPI. I was able to find another population of the...

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