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Common Baskettail Dragonfly, Epitheca cynosura

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Argia Publication – Furtive Forktails, Ischnura prognata

My article on Furtive Forktails, Ischnura prognata, is being published in the Argia! It will be in the next issue (which I believe is March 2023). I’m so thrilled I can hardly type this. The Argia is a publication produced by the Dragonfly Society of the Americas and if you are at all interested in dragonflies or damselflies or both, I heartily recommend joining. There is a blog that often has really useful species information as well as a quarterly news journal called the Argia and a ...
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Ischnura prognata
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Happy Holidays and Furtive Forktails

Happy Holidays to everyone! I hope the holiday season is a magical time full of happiness and laughter. I always love the holidays especially as it gives me an excuse to do some cooking and baking. This time of year is always an excuse to make a nice loaf of multigrain bread–it’s my big treat because we are on a low carb diet (like everyone else, it seems) so I only bake bread a few times a year. As it turns out, this is also when I finally decided to write up my observations ...
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Nature, Odonate

Common Where Found

We have a biologist friend who, when writing papers about difficult-to-find/uncommon/even rare critters will use the phrase, “common where found” to indicate that while the species may be difficult to find, if you do find it, you may find several (or more) of them. Furtive Forktails, Ischnura prognata, has the reputation of being hard to find, but I’m finding it’s more a case of “common where found” because they seem to be fairly common in the swamp near ...
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Citrine Forktail
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End of Summer

It’s the end of summer, which is always really hard to believe as the year went so quickly. The Fall bird migration is underway, or so I suppose but we haven’t had many birds pass through. A few Yellow Warblers, a Norther Waterthrush, and a few Palm Warblers. Since the Palm Warblers are here during the fall and winter months, they fit more into the “winter residents” category for me. So there haven’t been a lot of new species but maybe things will pick up in ...
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Anyone can help…

So I know next to nothing about dragonflies (among other things) but I’ve spent the summer learning about the dragonflies and damselflies in our area since the birds simply weren’t cooperating. I had no idea what dragonflies and damselflies were in our area or what should and shouldn’t be here. However, since I have a camera, I took a lot of photos and got two great books on dragonflies (Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast (Wormsloe Foundation Nature ...
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