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Aurora eating
May 24, 2020 - While I've never forgotten that dragonflies are always fierce predators, it occasionally slips my mind that their more s...
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Northern light
May 18, 2020 - It's late, I realize, but I started picking up the first odonates only yesterday. However, because of a camera problem—f...
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Mitey damsel
August 24, 2018 - When it comes to identifying members of the insect order Odonata, I'm reasonably good with the dragonflies, but their sm...
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Next generation
August 16, 2017 - Reproduction among invertebrates can take on many shapes and forms, a number of which fit into the, let us say, "don't t...
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Exclamation point odonate
June 10, 2017 - I am gradually getting to the point where I can claim at least a modest amount of identification expertise with the drag...
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The first common dragonfly
May 31, 2016 - I was beginning to wonder if something was wrong with our odonate population. To be sure, May was often chilly, many tim...
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Ebony emergence
May 24, 2016 - In yet another example of anti-Pasteurism, chance favored the not-particularly-well-prepared mind. After spending a good...
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Caught in the act
August 18, 2015 - I suspect that naturalists and nature chroniclers are basically pornographers at heart, since much of what we do involve...
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Skimming success
August 05, 2015 - If I'm ever to get good at the identification business, I'm going to have to get into serious collecting and never leave...
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Dark jewel
June 05, 2015 - This is not the first of the Ebony Jewelwing damselflies to pay us a visit—they've been on the wing, the dark wing, for...
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Damsel undistressed
May 17, 2015 - I have been looking for damselflies, those more-slender cousins of dragonflies, for about a week, and this morning, the...
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Moral dilemma
September 06, 2014 - I spend a lot of time observing the ins and outs of natural history, so I often run into a species of moral dilemma: do...
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Nearly done
August 27, 2014 - Summer at the lake is rapidly drawing to a close—an earlier close than usual because Labor Day occurs at the earliest po...
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