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3 Jul Axis Springs Ranch, Edwards County 7/3 ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 2 Jul 7 Gomphid Day at Gonzales (inc Blue-faced Ringtail) & Co Record at Medina River Park ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 02 Jul Trip report, Independence Park, Gonzales County 2 July 2009 ["Greg Lasley" ] 02 Jul Another New Record for Lubbock County 1 July at Ransom Canyon, Texas ["dragonflywatcher1029" ] 1 Jul webpage updated with recent photos from June ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 1 Jul webpage updated with recent photos from June ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 1 Jul Little Hackberry Creek, Edwards County ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 1 Jul Medina River Park, San Antonio - June 30 ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 01 Jul Medina River Park, June 30 ["tripp.davenport" ] 28 Jun Mountain Fork Park, Oklahoma ["David Arbour" ] 28 Jun Re: [se-odonata] odonate photos needed [2 Attachments] [Alison Sheehey ] 27 Jun Trans Pecos Odes 6/24-6/26 ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 25 Jun A new record for Lubbock County ["dragonflywatcher1029" ] 25 Jun Interesting finds in Western Uvalde County ["tripp.davenport" ] 24 Jun Some new images from East Texas and beyond ["Greg Lasley" ] 22 Jun Guadalupe & Medina Rivers today (5/22) ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 22 Jun I have added you to my friends network today! ["matcheigrfriends" ] 21 Jun Ozark Emerald ... not so endemic to the Ozarks [] 20 Jun Uvalde Co. Marl Pennant ["Mitch" ] 20 Jun Trip Report: Nueces Co., 19 June 2009 [tony gallucci ] 15 Jun Odes on the way home from Florida (Denton, Somervell, Mills, and Llano Counties) ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 15 Jun Re: Sumary of TexOdes Reports & Field Checklists [Dennis Paulson ] 15 Jun Re: Sumary of TexOdes Reports & Field Checklists ["Mitch" ] 15 Jun Sumary of TexOdes Reports & Field Checklists [tony gallucci ] 15 Jun Re: ID Help; introduction ["jewelwing68" ] 15 Jun interesting bug notes from Big Bend [tony gallucci ] 15 Jun ID Help [Bert Wessling ] 15 Jun Re: Trip Report (Late): Texas Hill Country, 5-7 June 2009 [Joshua Rose ] 15 Jun Trip Report: Kerr County, 14 June 2009 [tony gallucci ] 15 Jun Trip Report: Kerr, Real, Bandera Counties, 13 June 2009 [tony gallucci ] 15 Jun Trip Report (Late): Texas Hill Country, 5-7 June 2009 [tony gallucci ] 12 Jun Neon Skimmer ovipositing [Elizabeth Moon ] 12 Jun RE: West Texas ["Terry Hibbitts" ] 11 Jun new images of some uncommon to rare and local Texas odes posted ["Greg Lasley" ] 10 Jun Santa Ana this morning - lots of rare stuff [Martin Reid ] 09 Jun Some great Odes at Santa Ana today ["Martin" ] 8 Jun Okay; pics of the Sphagnum Sprites! [Martin Reid ] 8 Jun Sphagnum Sprite: credit where it's due [Martin Reid ] 8 Jun Mystery Saddlebags @ Edinburg WBC [] 8 Jun new Ode groups! [tony gallucci ] 8 Jun Start a small business FREE [] 07 Jun another new odonate species for Texas ["Greg Lasley" ] 7 Jun Companies need your input in order to be successful. [] 7 Jun Report from San Jacinto, Tyler and Jasper counties [Martin Reid ] 4 Jun Trip Report: Kerr County 3 June 2009 [tony gallucci ] 04 Jun Kendall and McCollough County Odes ["dragonflywatcher1029" ] 1 Jun A few more Bentsen odes [Joshua Rose ] 1 Jun TRIP REPORT: Real Co., 30 May 2009 [tony gallucci ] 30 May New Up and Flying Species for Lubbock County ["dragonflywatcher1029" ] 30 May a great spring for damselflies in the Panhandle ["eleodes79424" ] 30 May Re: mature male and female L. vacillans, Vermilion Saddlebags at Sa... [] 30 May Re: Photos of adult male and female Leptobasis vacillans have been ... [] 29 May Cook's Slough today ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 29 May mature male and female L. vacillans, Vermilion Saddlebags at Santa Ana [Martin Reid ] 29 May Photos of adult male and female Leptobasis vacillans have been posted ["david_t_dauphin" ] 29 May Bentsen odes 5-25 & 26-09 ["Joshua Rose" ] 29 May Dragonfly building [tony gallucci ] 28 May ID help ["Terry Hibbitts" ] 26 May Re: New images from south Texas posted [Mike May ] 26 May New images from south Texas posted ["Greg Lasley" ] 25 May Santa Ana Entrance Pond: even more great odes [Martin Reid ] 25 May Dragonfly Days sightings ["Joshua Rose" ] 25 May Trip Reports: Kerr/Real Cos. 24 May 2009 [tony gallucci ] 24 May some pix from last 2 weeks ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] 23 May correction or original post on Leptobasis vacillans ["Greg Lasley" ] 22 May Photos of Leptobasis vacillans (NEW U.S. RECORD) have been posted ["david_t_dauphin" ] 22 May new U.S. odonate record in the valley - Leptobasis vacillans ["Greg Lasley" ] 22 May More Odes Abound on the Texas Southern High Plains ["dragonflywatcher1029" ] 22 May Trip Report: Kerr County 21 May 2009 [tony gallucci ] 21 May Bentsen S.P. observations May 20 fide Martin Reid ["Greg Lasley" ] 20 May Kerr County 20 May 2009 [tony gallucci ] 20 May Trip Report: Real County 19 May 2009 [tony gallucci ] 19 May Bentsen odonata 5-18-09: Red-faced, Golden-winged, and Scarlet-tailed! ["Joshua Rose" ] 18 May East Texas Trip ["Terry Hibbitts" ] 18 May TRIP REPORT: Real County, 17 May 2009 [tony gallucci ] 17 May South Texas "Rocket Run" 5/16 ["Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" ] Subject: Axis Springs Ranch, Edwards County 7/3 From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:37:15 -0500 Dad & I ran up to Axis Springs "Lake" (only in the Hill Country could that little dinky impoundment be described as a "lake") on Axis Springs Ranch to look for Odes. The site consists of two small spring-fed impoundments in a deep limestone canyon. It is very open, rocky, and sunny. Had surprisingly high numbers of Dragons and surprisingly low numbers of Damsels compared to visits last year. We were there from 11:20-1:20, and found: Damsels: Double-striped Bluet (1 pair in tandem) Fragile Forktail (1) Dusky Dancer (10+) Variable Dancer (4-5) Kiowa Dancer (4-5) Lavender Dancer (10+) Dragons: Four-striped Leaftail (lots) Red-tailed Pennant (1) - first for this locale and first county record for Edwards County Checkered Setwing (lots) Black Setwing (10+) Swift Setwing (10+) Neon Skimmer (4-5) Widow Skimmer (4-5) Flame Skimmer (10+) Roseate Skimmer (4-5) Filigree Skimmer (4-5) Spot-winged Glider (lots) Wandering Glider (lots) And I had 1 large dark dragon fly by - it was either a Dragonhunter or a large Darner - my overall impression was that it was a large, solid black Dragon and my first thought was "Swamp Darner" (which it wasn't - no patrol flying, way out of habitat). Could not see any yellow as viewed from above (I was up on a ledge above the water when I saw it). My best guess is Dragonhunter, but I can't rule out a Darner. Troy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: 7 Gomphid Day at Gonzales (inc Blue-faced Ringtail) & Co Record at Medina River Park From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:36:50 -0500 Ran over to Gonzales today to look for the Blue-faced Ringtail and was successful. I found an adult male feeding on a Powdered Dancer. I promptly shot 120 or so images of this very cooperative individual. Have only dealt with a few, but have posted some here: http://www.thehibbitts.net/troy/photo/odonata/blue-faced_ringtail.htm None of the feeding pix are done as of right now (11:28 pm) but I should have them up sometime tomorrow on the same page. I also found 4 lone male and 2 pairs ovipositing in tandem of Coral-fronted Threadtails. Have posted a couple of new shots here: http://www.thehibbitts.net/troy/photo/odonata/coral-fronted_threadtail.htm My total list for today at Gonzales (Independence Park) - from 11:45 until 2:45 - is: Smoky Rubyspot (lots) Coral-fronted Threadtail (4 males, 2 pair in tandem) Powdered Dancer (lots) Blue-fronted Dancer (lots) Blue-ringed Dancer (lots) (the 7 Clubtails) Blue-faced Ringtail (1 male) Eastern Ringtail (1 male, 1 pair in tandem) Five-striped Leaftail (several) Cobra Clubtail (lots) Dragonhunter (1 or 2) Russett-tipped Clubtail (1 pair in tandem) Flag-tailed Spinyleg (lots, more common even than the Cobras) Swift River Cruiser (1) Great Pondhawk (2) Eastern Pondhawk (lots) Blue Dasher (3-4) Four-spotted Pennant (1) Swift Setwing (lots) Widow Skimmer (3 males) Stopped off at the Medina River Park in Southern Bexar County from 3:45 until 5:30. Found 1 surprising (to me) County Record - Great Blue Skimmer - pix here: http://www.thehibbitts.net/troy/photo/odonata/great_blue_skimmer.htm No luck on the Ivory-striped Sylphs. My total list includes: Smoky Rubyspots (lots) Comanche Dancer (1) Dusky Dancer (1) Powdered Dancer (lots) Blue-ringed Dancer (lots) Eastern Ringtail (several) Five-striped Leaftail (several) Dragonhunter (1) Great Pondhawk (1) Blue Dasher (several) Great Blue Skimmer (2 males) Roseate Skimmer (2) Common Whitetail (2 males, 1 female) Swift Setwing (lots) Black Setwing (lots) Pale-faced Clubskimmer (1 hanging up) Troy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Trip report, Independence Park, Gonzales County 2 July 2009 From: "Greg Lasley" <glasley AT earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:39:07 -0000 Hello All, I made a brief trip to Independence Park in Gonzales, Texas, this morning to see if I might be lucky enough to find a Blue-faced Ringtail (Erpetogomphus eutainia). Since 2003, I have found the Guadalupe River at Independence Park to be the only reliable spot for this species, but I typically do not expect to find one before mid July. It is a late flying bug and flies from July into late October in my experience. I have found it once in late June, however, several years ago. I did not find one toady, which was a disappointment, but I was distressed at some changes that have taken place at that park that I thought I would alert folks to. Several weeks ago Tony Gallucci mentioned on TexOdes that an area on the south side of the river just west of the U.S. 183 bridge had been mowed severely. I guess I was not prepared for the devastation that has been done to the vegetation in that area. In the past 6 years I have found one of the best places to find E. eutainia is in the brushy fields immediately south of the river and west of the U.S. 183 bridge. There is a parking lot and picnic area here as well as an area under the bridge where fishermen and swimmers congregate in large numbers, especially on weekends. Between that parking lot/picnic area and the river were extensive areas of tall grass and brush where I usually found eutainia in moderate numbers during the right times of the season. The entire area has been bull dozed down to bare dirt and is now apparently a parking area for swimmers and fishermen. There is little habitat left at this spot currently. To be fair, I was 2 weeks early to really expect eutainia in my experience, but the situation does not look encouraging for future jaunts to this particular spot. I hope I am wrong. Another good area for the species in past years is the edge of the golf course and park between the U.S. 183 bridge and the dam which is about 3/4 mile NW of the bridge. By walking along the edge of the golf course and park above the river bank (the edge of the mowed area), the species is sometimes located. I walked a good deal of this area today with no luck, but I sure hope that after mid July the species will again be present. I'll be out of state from mid July to mid August, so I hope some of you will go there and find eutainia during this time and post your findings here. Below will be a brief list of what I saw at Independence Park today, but mainly I wanted to add to what Tony said several weeks ago on TexOdes, that my personal favorite spot here has been nuked. Oh well...they call it "progress" I guess. Let's just hope observations of E. eutainia continues here later this season. Smoky Rubyspot (Hetaerina titia) - fairly common Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta) - hundreds Blue-ringed Dancer (Argia sedula) - a few Dusky Dancer (Argia translata) - a few Common Green Darner (Anax junius) - a few Flag-tailed Spinyleg (Dromogomphus spoliatus) - 1 Eastern Ringtail (Erpetogomphus designatus) - 2 Cobra Clubtail (Gomphus vastus) - 2 Russet-tipped Clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) - a few Bronzed River Cruiser (Macromia annulata) - 1 Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina) - 2 Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis) - a few Great Pondhawk (Erythemis vesiculosa) - 1 Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa) - common Roseate Skimmer (Orthemis ferruginea) - a few Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) - a few Greg Lasley Austin Subject: Another New Record for Lubbock County 1 July at Ransom Canyon, Texas From: "dragonflywatcher1029" <dragonflywatcher1029 AT yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:45 -0000 Hello All, I spotted my first Filigree Skimmer today at Ransom Canyon. I got photos and collected the single male. I recently had a conversation with Dr. Nancy McIntyre of Texas Tech who mentioned she thought she saw one at Mae Simmons Park on the east side of Lubbock a few weeks back. I searched the area over several days recently and no sign of anything. I've believed for some time now that Pseudoleon superbus was likely out here in Lubbock County but until now I had no clear proof. All that has changed now. Photos can be seen on OdonataCentral. Jerry K. Hatfield Subject: webpage updated with recent photos from June From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:32:12 -0500 I've finally finished updating my website with photos that I've taken during the month of June (and a few from the end of May). I've added new pix to over half of my species pages, and have added 36 new species. See: http://www.thehibbitts.net/troy/photo/odonata.htm Here is my list of new species additions: Sparkling Jewelwing (Florida) Carolina Spreadwing (Florida) Paiute Dancer (Texas) Seepage Dancer (Florida) Cherry Bluet (Florida) Attenuated Bluet (Florida) Atlantic Bluet (Florida) Big Bluet (Alabama) Golden Bluet (Florida) Blackwater Bluet (Florida) Black-fronted Forktail (Texas) Lilypad Forktail (Florida & Mississippi) Gray Petaltail (Florida & Mississippi) Comet Darner (Florida) Fawn Darner (Florida) Swamp Darner (Florida & Louisiana) Cyrano Darner (Florida & Texas) Broad-striped Forceptail (Texas) Gray-green Clubtail (Florida) Jade Clubtail (Texas) Southeastern Spinlyleg (Florida) White-belted Ringtail (Texas) Blackwater Clubtail (Florida) Gulf Coast Clubtail (Mississippi & Louisiana) Cobra Clubtail (Texas) Belle's Sanddragon (Florida) Russett-tipped Clubtail (Texas) Bronzed River Cruiser (Texas) Swift River Cruiser (Mississippi) Royal River Cruiser (Florida) Mocha Emerald (Florida) Amanda's Pennant (Florida) Red-veined Pennant (Florida) Western Pondhawk (Texas) Bar-wined Skimmer (Florida) Yellow-sided Skimmer (Florida) Other notable sightings/additions for June include Smoky-winged (Variable) Dancers from Florida, Leonora's Dancers from Texas, Plains & Mexican Forktails from Texas, Narrow-striped Forceptails (Texas), lots of variation in Eastern Ringtails (Mississippi, Texas), desert-phase Sulfur-tipped Clubtails (Texas), variation in Common Sanddragons (Florida, Mississippi, Texas), Prince Baskettails hanging up and in flight (Florida, Texas), lots of Pale-faced Clubskimmers (Texas), male Plateau Dragonlets (Texas), female Slough Amberwing pix (Texas), and female Filigree Skimmers from Texas. Troy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: webpage updated with recent photos from June From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:32:12 -0500 I've finally finished updating my website with photos that I've taken during the month of June (and a few from the end of May). I've added new pix to over half of my species pages, and have added 36 new species. See: http://www.thehibbitts.net/troy/photo/odonata.htm Here is my list of new species additions: Sparkling Jewelwing (Florida) Carolina Spreadwing (Florida) Paiute Dancer (Texas) Seepage Dancer (Florida) Cherry Bluet (Florida) Attenuated Bluet (Florida) Atlantic Bluet (Florida) Big Bluet (Alabama) Golden Bluet (Florida) Blackwater Bluet (Florida) Black-fronted Forktail (Texas) Lilypad Forktail (Florida & Mississippi) Gray Petaltail (Florida & Mississippi) Comet Darner (Florida) Fawn Darner (Florida) Swamp Darner (Florida & Louisiana) Cyrano Darner (Florida & Texas) Broad-striped Forceptail (Texas) Gray-green Clubtail (Florida) Jade Clubtail (Texas) Southeastern Spinlyleg (Florida) White-belted Ringtail (Texas) Blackwater Clubtail (Florida) Gulf Coast Clubtail (Mississippi & Louisiana) Cobra Clubtail (Texas) Belle's Sanddragon (Florida) Russett-tipped Clubtail (Texas) Bronzed River Cruiser (Texas) Swift River Cruiser (Mississippi) Royal River Cruiser (Florida) Mocha Emerald (Florida) Amanda's Pennant (Florida) Red-veined Pennant (Florida) Western Pondhawk (Texas) Bar-wined Skimmer (Florida) Yellow-sided Skimmer (Florida) Other notable sightings/additions for June include Smoky-winged (Variable) Dancers from Florida, Leonora's Dancers from Texas, Plains & Mexican Forktails from Texas, Narrow-striped Forceptails (Texas), lots of variation in Eastern Ringtails (Mississippi, Texas), desert-phase Sulfur-tipped Clubtails (Texas), variation in Common Sanddragons (Florida, Mississippi, Texas), Prince Baskettails hanging up and in flight (Florida, Texas), lots of Pale-faced Clubskimmers (Texas), male Plateau Dragonlets (Texas), female Slough Amberwing pix (Texas), and female Filigree Skimmers from Texas. Troy Subject: Little Hackberry Creek, Edwards County From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:21:59 -0500 Stopped at Little Hackberry Creek on the way back from Rocksprings today. Had a few Odes - Variable Dancer (1) Double-striped Bluets (lots) Arroyo Bluets (lots) Desert Firetails (lots) Four-striped Leaftail (1) Banded Pennant (2) Checkered Setwing (1) Swift Setwing (sev) Eastern Pondhawk (1) Comanche Skimmer (1) Roseate Skimmer (1) Blue Dasher (lots) Wandering Glider (1) Water levels are extremely low here, so I was pleased to see the numbers that I saw. Troy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Medina River Park, San Antonio - June 30 From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:19:04 -0500 The wife & I went to Medina River Park in San Antonio yesterday from about 9:30 until 10:45. It was a bit early for a lot of activity, and we didn't see any Ivory-striped Sylphs (which we were looking for), but we saw: Smoky Rubyspots (lots) Powdered Dancers (lots) Blue-fronted Dancers (3-4) Blue-ringed Dancers (lots) Kiowa Dancers (3-4) Comanche Dancers (3-4) Eastern Ringtails (lots) Five-striped Leaftails (lots) Swift Setwing (lots) Black Setwings (5-6) Eastern Pondhawk (5-6) Common Whitetail (1) Pale-faced Clubskimmers (lots) Had an appointment to get my wife's Mini Cooper serviced at 11:30, so we left a bit earlier than I would have liked. Herp-wise, saw: 2 Diamondbacked Watersnakes, 1 Western Ribbonsnake, sev Texas Rose-bellied Lizards, 1 Texas Spiny Lizard, sev Green Anoles, 1 Spiny Softshell, and 2 Red-eared Sliders. My wife also saw a coyote crossing the river on a fallen log, but was unable to get photos. Troy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Medina River Park, June 30 From: "tripp.davenport" <tripp.davenport AT yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:13:56 -0000 Went to Medina River Park today looking for clubtails...The heat was intense around midday...Take care at Medina River, a few weeks back I almost stepped on a cottonmouth down near the river banks... I kept a better eye out today and took my cell phone along as well. Photographed many clubtails, but all were either Five-striped Leaftail or Eastern Ringtail. Pale-faced clubskimmer were common as were Setwing. Common White-tail, Roseate Skimmer and Eastern Pondhawk were scattered. I did spot a dragonhunter but could not get a photo as it set down on the far side of the river. Damsels were scarce, mainly powdered dancer and a mix of Blue-ringed Dancer. The San Antonio River at Espada Dam yeilded Gray-waisted Skimmer, Eastern Amberwing, Swift Setwing, Five-striped Leaftail, and Broad-striped Forceptail. Subject: Mountain Fork Park, Oklahoma From: "David Arbour" <arbour AT windstream.net> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:21:49 -0500 Berlin Heck and I visited Mountain Fork Park on the Mountain Fork River near Eagletown, McCurtain County, Oklahoma today. We walked down river through the forest staying close to the river. It was very shady there plus we got rained on. The poor light made photography a challenge but the hanging type dragons loved it in there. Photos of the better Odes we found can be seen here: http://www.pbase.com/sloughbirder/recent_photos . Scroll down to the bottom four rows. Here is a list of what we had: Powdered Dancer - 2 Turquoise Bluet - several Swamp Darner - 1 Fawn Darner - ~15 Mocha Emerald - 1 Prince Baskettail - 2 Orange Shadowdragon - 3 Black-shouldered Spinyleg - 2 or 3 Pronghorn Clubtail - several Dragonhunter - several Slaty Skimmer - lots Spangled Skimmer - 1 Widow Skimmer - 1 Eastern Pondhawk - several Probably overlooked some common ones. Berlin visited this site a couple days ago and found and photographed a male Ozark Emerald. David Arbour De Queen, Arkansas Personal Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/sloughbirder [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Re: [se-odonata] odonate photos needed [2 Attachments] From: Alison Sheehey <natureali AT gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:19:45 -0700 Dennis Paulson wrote: > > I still need quite a few photos for the eastern North American odonate > field guide I'm writing. If anyone has good photos of any of these > species/sexes, I would be forever grateful for the opportunity to use > them. I have no photo budget, but you will get a free copy of the book > when it is published if one or more of your photos are used. Also note > that I can't include photos of these species in the book if I don't have > them! > > ODONATE PHOTOS NEEDED BY DENNIS PAULSON FOR EASTERN NORTH AMERICA > ODONATA FIELD GUIDE - June 2009 > Dennis, Traveling through the country right now and will return on July 20th. I'll try to send photos if I have them. Here are two not great but decent Western Red Damsel photos... others, if I can't ID myself I will send thumbnails for you to help ID. Ali in Niagra Falls Alison Sheehey Weldon, CA www.natureali.org Subject: Trans Pecos Odes 6/24-6/26 From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:53:59 -0500 Took a trip out to the Trans Pecos the past few days. Found quite a few Odes – with a species list of 49 species total. Searched spots in Jeff Davis, Brewster, and Val Verde Counties 6/24 – Limpia Creek, ca 4 mi N of Ft Davis on Tx 17 (Jeff Davis County) American Rubyspot (10+) Painted Damsel (2) Arroyo Bluet (10+) Black-fronted Forktail (2-3) Mexican Forktail (5+) Sooty Dancer (2) Aztec Dancer (5+) Springwater Dancer (10+) Desert Firetail (10+) Plateau Dragonlet (4-5) Western(ish) Pondhawk (10+) (females looked about ½ way between eastern and western) Common Whitetail (1) Desert Whitetail (1) Blue Dasher (lots) – both “eastern” and “desert” forms Flame Skimmer (10+) Comanche Skimmer (1) Widow Skimmer (1) Swift Setwing (5+) 6/24 – Calamity Creek, ca 22 mi S of Alpine on TX 118 (Brewster County) American Rubyspot (lots) Painted Damsel (lots) Arroyo Bluet (lots) Aztec Dancer (lots) Variable Dancer (3) Kiowa Dancer (1) Desert Firetail (10+) Comanche Skimmer (1) Flame Skimmer (4-5) Widow Skimmer (3-4) Swift Setwing (3-4) Black Saddlebags (1) 6/25 – Post Park, 5 mi SW of Marathon (Brewster County) American Rubyspot (10+) Double-striped Bluet (lots) Arroyo Bluet (lots) Blue-ringed Dancer (lots) Variable Dancer (1) Aztec Dancer (lots) Paiute Dancer (2) Leonora’s Dancer (3) Black-fronted Forktail (5+) Mexican Forktail (5+) Sulfur-tipped Clubtail (lots) Swift Setwing (lots) Checkered Setwing (lots) Eastern Pondhawk (lots) Comanche Skimmer (10+) Flame Skimmer (5+) Widow Skimmer (5+) Blue Dasher (lots) Eastern Amberwing (10+) Red Saddlebags (10+) Black Saddlebags (10+) Desert Whitetail (10+) Spot-winged Glider (1) 6/25 – US 90 Roadside Pond ca 10 mi E of Marathon (Brewster County) Plateau Spreadwing (lots) Variable Dancer (1) Familiar Bluet (lots) Rambur’s Forktail (2-3) Mexican Forktail (lots) Plains Forktail (5-6) Black-fronted Forktail (1) Desert Firetail (10+) Common Green Darner (2) Twelve-spotted Skimmer (1) Flame Skimmer (2-3) Roseate Skimmer (10+) Common Whitetail (1) Blue Dasher (10+) Red Saddlebags (10+) Wandering Glider (1) 6/25 – Howard Draw low water crossing ca 2 mi N of Pandale (Val Verde County) (also stopped at Pecos River, but since I saw the same bugs on 6/26, I’ll cover that stop below) Powdered Dancer (5+) American Rubyspot (5+) Filigree Skimmer (5+) Wandering Glider (5+) Spot-winged Glider (5+) Red Saddlebags (5+) 6/26 – Gries Ranch, ca 10 mi E of Pandale (Val Verde County) (at Windmill-fed pond and sightings randomly around ranch) Familiar Bluet (lots) Flame Skimmer (4-5) Roseate Skimmer (10+) Common Whitetail (1) Checkered Setwing (1) Red Saddlebags (10+) Wandering Glider (5+) Spot-winged Glider (5+) 6/26 – Pecos River at Pandale (Val Verde County) American Rubyspot (lots) Smoky Rubyspot (lots) Powdered Dancer (lots) Dusky Dancer (lots) Blue-ringed Dancer (lots) Kiowa Dancer (1) Comanche Dancer (lots) Five-striped Leaftail (lots) Eastern Ringtail (lots) White-belted Ringtail (lots) . . . I’ll need these photos reviewed, but there were two very different “morphs” of ringtail present here Bronzed River Cruiser (1) Pale-faced Clubskimmer (lots) Flame Skimmer (3) Comanche Skimmer (1) Eastern Pondhawk (1) Checkered Setwing (lots) [sigh] and another 800 photos to deal with . . . Troy Hibbitts Camp Wood, Texas [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: A new record for Lubbock County From: "dragonflywatcher1029" <dragonflywatcher1029 AT yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:10:18 -0000 I obtained photos an collected specimen of male Black Setwing (Dythemis nigrescens) from Buffalo Springs Lake's Audubon Trail on Tuesday 23 June 2009. Trip to Colorado Springs, CO (El Paso County also yielded records of Blue-eyed Darner, several damsels (id not yet determined) and what I believe is a female Pale Snaketail. Jerry K. Hatfield Subject: Interesting finds in Western Uvalde County From: "tripp.davenport" <tripp.davenport AT yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:28:15 -0000 On a short trip June 23 to Blewett, in west Uvalde Co. managed to photograph and document a good variety of species Most noteable of which were Leonora's Dancer (Argia leonorae) and Needham's Skimmer (Libellula needhami) in addition: Red-tailed Pennant Blue-ringed Dancer Rambur's Forktail Citrine Forktail Four-Spotted Pennant Roseate Skimmer Blue Dasher Eastern Pondhawk Great Pondhawk Swift Setwing Black Setwing Checkered Setwing Hyacinth Glider Widow Skimmer Common White-tail Five-striped Leaftail Halloween pennant Comanche Skimmer Subject: Some new images from East Texas and beyond From: "Greg Lasley" <glasley AT earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:39:23 -0000 Hello All, For anyone interested, I've posted some new images from the past 10 days or so including some shots of the new Texas population of Sphagnum Sprite (Nehalennia gracilis). Also are some shots from Arkansas and Missouri taken while on a trip with John Abbott, Mike Dillon, Bob Thomas and others to the DSA (Dragonfly Society of the Americas) meeting in Sullivan, MO. Things such as Interior Least Clubtail (Stylogomphus sigmastylus), Westfall's Snaketail (Ophiogomphus westfalli), and the endangered Hine's Emerald (Somatochlora hineana) may be of interest to some of you. A list of the new web pages and new images is at: http://www.greglasley.net/whatsnew.html Look at the pages posted for June 24. Thanks, Greg Lasley Austin Subject: Guadalupe & Medina Rivers today (5/22) From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:08:59 -0500 Dad & I ran over to Independence Park to look for Blue-faced Ringtails. No luck on that score (probably not emerged yet, especially given the number of tenerals of other clubtail species we saw), but we did end up with 7 species of clubtails, and 6 in Gonzales County. We also had 2 new county records (per OC). After exiting the interstate at Seguin, I stopped for 2 dead bugs - one was a Bronzed River Cruiser (which was smashed up) and the other was a Narrow-striped Forceptail which was only stunned and was very much alive. She was held onto for photographs (cooled in a 32 oz drink cup of ice in a ziplock). Per OC, this is the first record of that species in the county. Searched Independence Park from about 11:00 until 2:30 - found: Flagtail Spinyleg (2-3), all either teneral or very young Cobra Clubtails - lots (1 pair in wheel) Russet-tipped Clubtail - 2 pairs in wheel (possibly 3, as I saw another pair of something fly up into the brush), 1 teneral Dragonhunter - 1, maybe 2 Five-striped Leaftail - 2 (and probably another clubtail was here, like an Eastern Ringtail - as I saw a very light yellow clubtail flying over the riffle just above the bridge) Bronzed River Cruiser - 1 cruisin by Swift Setwing - 1 Great Pondhawk - 1 Eastern Pondhawk - 2-3 Slough Amberwing - 1 female (new county record per OC) Widow Skimmer - 1 male Roseate Skimmer - 1 female Powdered Dancers - hundreds and hundreds (I have a shot of probably 2-300 ovipositing in tandem in a single frame) Dusky Dancers - 10+ Blue-fronted Dancers - 10+ Blue-ringed Dancers - 10+ Fragile Forktail - 2-3 Smoky Rubyspot - lots Next stop was Medina River Nature Area on TX 16 in southern San Antonio, where we were looking for Ivory-striped Sylphs. Searched from 3:45-5:00. It was very hot here, and I will be going back and spending more time (on a morning!). We saw 2 sylphs but got no photos. Found: Dragonhunter - 1 Eastern Ringtail - 10+ Sulfur-tipped Clubtail - 1 Five-striped Leaftail - 10+ Swift River Cruiser - 1 female that hung up for Dad for 5 minutes and flew away as soon as I walked up Swift Setwing - 1 Checkered Setwing - 1 female Great Pondhawk - 1 Eastern Pondhawk - 2-3 Ivory-striped Sylph - 2 Smoky Rubyspot - lots Powdered Dancer - lots Blue-ringed Dancer - 10+ Not a bad day for me - got photos of 2 new bugs (Cobra & Russet-tipped Clubtail, and 3 if you count the dead Bronzed Cruiser) . . . and saw a 3rd (Bronzed Cruiser) and 4th new species (sylph). I think for Dad there were 4 species new to his photographic list (Slough Ambering, Narrow-striped Forceptail, Russet-tipped Clubtail, Swift River Cruiser) Troy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: I have added you to my friends network today! From: "matcheigrfriends" <matcheigrfriends AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:12:08 -0000 I created this cool friends network and added you to my friends network. Hit-up now: http://onshine.zoomshare.com/files/girlfriend.htm Subject: Ozark Emerald ... not so endemic to the Ozarks From: ok-birds AT sbcglobal.net Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:32:45 -0700 (PDT) Like many of those commenting on the season, I have found odes to have been very few and far between through May with the likes of Powdered Dancer and Sulphur-tipped Clubtail emerging more than 3 weeks later than the previous two years. Since the 5th of June, activity has accelerated with respect to diversity, and finally some decent numbers have shown up the past few days, although still lagging 07-08. I'll summarize more thoroughly the meager finds to date at the end of the week. The lacklustre season took on some polish yesterday with the discovery of an Ozark Emerald toward the end of a Black-capped Vireo survey in the Wichita Mountains, Comanche Co., OK. See ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/victor_fazio-iii/3645833451/ ... and be sure to view full screen. This represents a first county record, and first for western Oklahoma ... also the westernmost record of the species (a range extension of 200 miles). This generally crepuscular species is rarely seen mid-day, yet here I encountered one around 2pm at the uppermost portion of Ketch Canyon. The species is generally considered endemic to the Ozark mountains of Missouri, Arkansas, and immediately adjacent portions of Oklahoma. However, there are at least three other records away from the mountains, including 2 in Kansas and one north of Tulsa, OK. Given the similarity with Texas Emerald, and only slightly greater distance to the nearest record of that species, I will defer to expert opinion as to whether this should be best treated as Texas/Ozark Emerald, however, based on the absence of spotting basally to S4-7 (sensu Abbott), I am putting this forward as Somatochlora ozarkensis. cheers Vic Fazio Lawton, OK. Subject: Uvalde Co. Marl Pennant From: "Mitch" <mitch AT utopianature.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:45:59 -0500 Hi all, I have seen a couple of these in the county over the last five years, but not until today, sitting, which allowed a digiscope, of a Macrodiplax balteata Marl Pennant in Uvalde Co.. It had been on my hit list of things needing docs so I will forward the pix...... I saw a couple at least, at the fish hatchery (UNFH). A Filigree Skimmer (Psuedoleon superbus) was at the city park, seemed a male with essentially black hindwing area, virtually no light areas, and nearly equally dark forewing area. You know the type..... Didn't have any time so didn't get a list built up, however the hatchery is starting to get busy with odes. Mitch Mitch Heindel Utopia, TX www.utopianature.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Trip Report: Nueces Co., 19 June 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:27:08 +0000 I was in Corpus Christi on business yesterday, and was able to make time for a short stop on the Nueces River below Lake Corpus Christi dam. Several little backwater ponds provided all the ode action, nothing was on the river that i saw. 1 Blue-fronted Dancer, Argia apicalis 1 Cyrano Darner, Nasiaeschna pentacantha (would be NCR, photographed on the wing, but poorly, and likely not good enough for positive ID) 1 Broad-striped Forceptail, Aphylla angustifolia (photographed) 1 Four-spotted Pennant, Brachymesia gravida 1 Great Pondhawk, Erythemis vesiculosa (photographed) 1 Eastern Pondhawk, Erythemis simplicicollis simplicicollis 2 Orange-belled Skimmer, Orthemis discolor (would be NCR, also photgraphed poorly) 1 Roseate Skimmer, Orthemis ferruginea (photographed) 2 Common Whitetail, Plathemis lydia 1 Widow Skimmer, Libellula luctuosa 2 Eastern Amberwing, Perithemis tenera 1 Spot-winged Glider, Pantala hymenaea tony gallucci ingram/kerrville/hunt, texashurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. 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Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Odes on the way home from Florida (Denton, Somervell, Mills, and Llano Counties) From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:28:03 -0500 Had a great trip for Odes to Florida the first 2 weeks of June, amassing a list of 77 species, 29 of which were new to me. Since this is "Tex" Odes, I'll confine this report to the things that I saw in Texas on the way back (with the detour up to Lewisville for my cousin's wedding shower). June 13 - Denton County Searched two locations, one a pond near I-35E and Corporate Drive in Lewisville, where we had: Familiar Bluet (photos) Rambur's Forktail Common Green Darner Jade Clubtail (at a distance) Prince Baskettail (photos) Eastern Pondhawk Eastern Amberwing Widow Skimmer Spot-winged Glider Red Saddlebags (photos) And the other at Leonard Johns Community Park in Flowermound (near my cousin's apartment complex), where we had: Blue-fronted Dancer (photos) Blue-ringed Dancer (photos) Dusky Dancer (photos) Familiar Bluet (photos) Double-striped Bluet (photos) Rambur's Forktail (photos) Citrine Forktail Desert Firetail (photos) Cyrano Darner female ovipositing (photos) - County Record Jade Clubtail (photos) - "Lifer" Prince Baskettail Swift Setwing (photos) Eastern Pondhawk (photos) Widow Skimmer (photos) Blue Dasher (photos) Eastern Amberwing (photos) Common Whitetail (photos) Black Saddlebags (photos) 14 June Made a few stops to break up the monotony of the drive from Arlington to Camp Wood. First stop was at the Brazos River on US 67 in Somervell County: Powdered Dancer (photos) Dusky Dancer (photos) Blue-ringed Dancer (photos) Common Sanddragon (photos) Eastern Ringtail (photos) Five-striped Leaftail (photos) Never have I seen so many Clubtails at one spot! Saw probably in excess of 30 of the Sanddragons and the Ringtails, with about half that many Leaftails. 2nd stop was made more to let the dogs "do their business", stopping at the city park in Goldthwaite near the Junction of TX 16 and US 183. There is only a small temporary stream through the park, and I was surprised to find a few things there (all of which were county records for Mills County): Aztec Dancer (photos) Variable Dancer (photos) Kiowa Dancer (photos) Flame Skimmer (photos) 3rd stop was a bit of a disappointment in terms of Ode Numbers, especially after the Brazos River stop - we stopped at the City Park on the Llano River in Llano, where I found: American Rubyspot (photos) - county record Powdered Dancer (photos) Dusky Dancer - no photos, would have been county record Blue-ringed Dancer - only photo I shot was one being eaten by a robberfly Swift Setwing - (photos) Blue Dasher Eastern Pondhawk My Florida list will be on my website hopefully within the week - but I have over a 2000 photos to sort through . . . Troy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Re: Sumary of TexOdes Reports & Field Checklists From: Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson AT comcast.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:41:36 -0700 Hi, Tony. Not reported to TexOdes but seen by me: Spangled Skimmer - male at small pond above Boykin Springs, Angelina NF, Jasper Co., 31 May 2005 Dennis On Jun 15, 2009, at 11:48 AM, tony gallucci wrote: > Of the 232 species of Odonates documented in Texas [plus > three additional species reported but not documented and/or yet > accepted]: > > these 24 species have never been reported to TexOdes from the > state of Texas since its inception in October 2003: > > Canyon Rubyspot > Lyre-tipped Spreadwing > Tezpi Dancer > Alkali Bluet > Atlantic Bluet > Everglades Sprite > Persephone’s Darner > Shadow Darner > Dashed Ringtail > Serpent Ringtail > Tamaulipan Clubtail > Brimstone Clubtail > Gilded River Cruiser > Slender Baskettail > Alabam Shadowdragon > Fine-lined Emerald > Coppery Emerald > Clamp-tipped Emerald > Double-ringed Pennant > Flame-tailed Pondhawk > Spangled Skimmer > Cherry-faced Meadwohawk > Band-winged Meadowhawk > Aztec Glider ----- Dennis Paulson 1724 NE 98 St. Seattle, WA 98115 206-528-1382 dennispaulson AT comcast.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Re: Sumary of TexOdes Reports & Field Checklists From: "Mitch" <mitch AT utopianature.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:58:21 -0500 Hey Tony, Thanks for the great reports and lists !! I can only remove one speices from the 42 not reported in 2009. Yesterday at Lost Maples Kathy and I had a Red Rock Skimmer. My first of year, and a real scarce bug here. Most of my few priors were in fall as I recall. Other than that...... the drying of many sections of the Sabinal that started last year, and is continuing, has not boded well for odes. This is the first spring in 6 I have not found Protoneura cara Orange-striped Threadtail at Utopia Park for instance. Many places along the river covered in Smoky Rubyspots until last year, still have none, or any running water. Overall numbers at Utopia Park seem factors lower than any prior season, and the same for Lost Maples. I did see a Red-tailed Pennant up there yesterday which is another usually fall bug up here, and somewhat scarce as well. The regulars like Widow Skimmer, Common Whitetail, Banded Pennant, Pale-faced Clubskimmer were all seen. Mitch Mitch Heindel Utopia, TX www.utopianature.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "tony gallucci" To: "Texas Odes" Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:48 PM Subject: [TexOdes] Sumary of TexOdes Reports & Field Checklists While preparing for trips and reports the last couple of weeks i made a series of field checklists and compiled a list of reported species in Texas . . . the checklists i made are availabel as pdfs for anyone who wants a copy of them, i will, no doubt, revise them frequently as i am wont to do, but i feel like the current lists are pretty solid . . . for me, they are very convenient for tallying up at the end of the day or trip, both species and numbers, and i designed the more local ones for quickly checking to see if documentation exists for area counties . . . they are available as copies for printing as two-sheeters, or a slightly different layout for printing back to back . . . specify if you want one or the other, or if you want the whole package . . . the checklists i have currently updated via Odonata Central, some private websites, and personal records are for: Texas, The Hill Country, Real County and Kerr County. i also compiled a list of all the species ever reported on TexOdes since its inception in October 2003, and all the species reported so far in 2009. i thought it more valuable for posting to list the species NOT reported during those time periods . . . here they are (corrections welcome!): Of the 232 species of Odonates documented in Texas [plus three additional species reported but not documented and/or yet accepted]: these 24 species have never been reported to TexOdes from the state of Texas since its inception in October 2003: Canyon Rubyspot Lyre-tipped Spreadwing Tezpi Dancer Alkali Bluet Atlantic Bluet Everglades Sprite Persephone's Darner Shadow Darner Dashed Ringtail Serpent Ringtail Tamaulipan Clubtail Brimstone Clubtail Gilded River Cruiser Slender Baskettail Alabam Shadowdragon Fine-lined Emerald Coppery Emerald Clamp-tipped Emerald Double-ringed Pennant Flame-tailed Pondhawk Spangled Skimmer Cherry-faced Meadwohawk Band-winged Meadowhawk Aztec Glider these 42 additional species [plus 2 unconfirmed species] have been reported to TexOdes previously from Texas, but not yet for the year 2009 (as of 14 June 2009): Sparkling Jewelwing Slender Spreadwing Mexican Wedgetail Seepage Dancer Leonora's Dancer Rainbow Bluet Azure Bluet Tule Bluet Big Bluet Desert Forktail Eastern Forktail Gray Petaltail Amazon Darner [Icarus Darner, Coryphaeschna apeora] Regal Darner Harlequin Darner Arroyo Darner Blue-eyed Darner Caribbean Darner White-belted Ringtail Blue-faced Ringtail Banner Clubtail Gulf Coast Clubtail Oklahoma Clubtail Gray Sanddragon Laura's Clubtail Twin-spotted Spiketail Bronzed River Cruiser Georgia River Cruiser Robust Baskettail Smoky Shadowdragon Orange Shadowdragon Mocha Emerald Slender Clubskimmer Gray-waisted Skimmer Mayan Setwing Black Pondhawk Black-winged Dragonlet [White-tailed/Tropical/Wide-tailed Sylph, Macrothemis pseudimitans] Red Rock Skimmer Blue-faced Meadowhawk Cardinal Meadowhawk Autumn Meadowhawk Antillean Saddlebags tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! 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Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.338 / Virus Database: 270.12.69/2176 - Release Date: 6/14/2009 5:54 PM Subject: Sumary of TexOdes Reports & Field Checklists From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:48:43 +0000 While preparing for trips and reports the last couple of weeks i made a series of field checklists and compiled a list of reported species in Texas . . . the checklists i made are availabel as pdfs for anyone who wants a copy of them, i will, no doubt, revise them frequently as i am wont to do, but i feel like the current lists are pretty solid . . . for me, they are very convenient for tallying up at the end of the day or trip, both species and numbers, and i designed the more local ones for quickly checking to see if documentation exists for area counties . . . they are available as copies for printing as two-sheeters, or a slightly different layout for printing back to back . . . specify if you want one or the other, or if you want the whole package . . . the checklists i have currently updated via Odonata Central, some private websites, and personal records are for: Texas, The Hill Country, Real County and Kerr County. i also compiled a list of all the species ever reported on TexOdes since its inception in October 2003, and all the species reported so far in 2009. i thought it more valuable for posting to list the species NOT reported during those time periods . . . here they are (corrections welcome!): Of the 232 species of Odonates documented in Texas [plus three additional species reported but not documented and/or yet accepted]: these 24 species have never been reported to TexOdes from the state of Texas since its inception in October 2003: Canyon Rubyspot Lyre-tipped Spreadwing Tezpi Dancer Alkali Bluet Atlantic Bluet Everglades Sprite Persephone’s Darner Shadow Darner Dashed Ringtail Serpent Ringtail Tamaulipan Clubtail Brimstone Clubtail Gilded River Cruiser Slender Baskettail Alabam Shadowdragon Fine-lined Emerald Coppery Emerald Clamp-tipped Emerald Double-ringed Pennant Flame-tailed Pondhawk Spangled Skimmer Cherry-faced Meadwohawk Band-winged Meadowhawk Aztec Glider these 42 additional species [plus 2 unconfirmed species] have been reported to TexOdes previously from Texas, but not yet for the year 2009 (as of 14 June 2009): Sparkling Jewelwing Slender Spreadwing Mexican Wedgetail Seepage Dancer Leonora’s Dancer Rainbow Bluet Azure Bluet Tule Bluet Big Bluet Desert Forktail Eastern Forktail Gray Petaltail Amazon Darner [Icarus Darner, Coryphaeschna apeora] Regal Darner Harlequin Darner Arroyo Darner Blue-eyed Darner Caribbean Darner White-belted Ringtail Blue-faced Ringtail Banner Clubtail Gulf Coast Clubtail Oklahoma Clubtail Gray Sanddragon Laura’s Clubtail Twin-spotted Spiketail Bronzed River Cruiser Georgia River Cruiser Robust Baskettail Smoky Shadowdragon Orange Shadowdragon Mocha Emerald Slender Clubskimmer Gray-waisted Skimmer Mayan Setwing Black Pondhawk Black-winged Dragonlet [White-tailed/Tropical/Wide-tailed Sylph, Macrothemis pseudimitans] Red Rock Skimmer Blue-faced Meadowhawk Cardinal Meadowhawk Autumn Meadowhawk Antillean Saddlebags tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Re: ID Help; introduction From: "jewelwing68" <jbshouston AT sbcglobal.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:54:42 -0000 I'm mostly just posting to introduce myself to the group, after lurking for a year or so. I'm in the Galleria area of Houston and have enjoyed observing and photographing odes (and leps and more and more other bugs) since about 2007, mostly around the upper Texas coast and the Lower Rio Grande Valley, but hoping to venture out into east Texas soon. I'm always looking to examine odes in-hand when permissible, grow my life list, and look for county records. My photographic set-up is a point-and-shoot with a macro setting and a big zoom and is mainly for documentation & ID. As far as the ID request, I would call it a Carmine Skimmer, based on it looking like a Roseate but with bright red face and eyes. Happy odeing, John Schneider Houston --- In TexOdes AT yahoogroups.com, Bert Wessling wrote: > > Photographed this in backyard in Hidalgo County. Carmine Skimmer? > > > http://tinyurl.com/mojjl9 > > > Bert Wessling > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > Subject: interesting bug notes from Big Bend From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:27:01 +0000 Tripp Davenport, a teacher at our school on Big Springs Ranch has gotten very interested in odonates recently and is sending me bunches of great photos from various jaunts of his, including some very interesting bugs . . . two of note recently are new county records from Brewster County . . . one is Dot-winged Baskettail from the Post at Marathon, which has been previously found there, but apparently not documented before. the second record involves an exciting range extension . . . he photographed a Fiery-eyed Dancer, Argia oenea, just above the spilloff on the Window Trail in the Chisos at Big Bend National Park. the only previous Texas records i am aware of are from Chinati Hot Springs and ZH Canyon in Presidio County. this bug was verified by John Abbott and Greg Lasley. the picture can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdavenport/3600123202/in/set-72157619514014148/ tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: ID Help From: Bert Wessling <bwessling AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:39:29 -0500 Photographed this in backyard in Hidalgo County. Carmine Skimmer? http://tinyurl.com/mojjl9 Bert Wessling [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Re: Trip Report (Late): Texas Hill Country, 5-7 June 2009 From: Joshua Rose <opihi AT rgv.rr.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:51:25 -0500 Hey all - for those of you who are on FaceBook (I know at least two of you are), I have already posted about a dozen of my photos in my photo album section there, including all three of my life birds, my long- awaited first Dragonhunter (the adult of that species had evaded me on several previous trips before I finally saw one, and then a few more, with Tony), the Coppery Dancer and a few other things. I figure to post several more to BugGuide in the near future, including the Jade- striped Sylph, and an intriguing fly that was lurking in the same habitat which I think might be some sort of Snipe-fly, stay tuned.... Not gonna happen tonight though. Also got a tragic photo of a male Eastern Ringtail in what is left of his wheel, his mate having been killed off by one of the Cyrano Darners. Tony and I saw the trio come flying in, the ringtails trying to mate while the darner was trying to eat the female, sex and death simultaneously while flying. Then the darner broke off from the struggle and left, and the male clubtail perched long enough for a couple of photos. I have seen photos before of life female odes in tandem with the leftover body parts of their males, but this was the first time I had seen a life male paired with a dead female. Thanks for a great adventure Tony! Have fun, Josh On Jun 14, 2009, at 11:43 PM, tony gallucci wrote: > Last weekend Josh Rose came up to spend a few days bug and bird > chasing in the Hill Country. I have been struggling all week with a > number of IDs on things (mostly beetles, misc. bugs, clams) we > photographed and wanted to post a full list to this listserv and my > blog, but it's dragging on and so rather than linger any longer, i > am posting at least the odonates from the full weekend . . . > > Josh had a set of ode and bird targets and we managed to knock out > everything on his primary list . . . we got about half of the things > on his secondary list, and he added a few things he hadn't counted > on as well . . . > > The big target location was our Big Springs Ranch in Real County > which has had all of his primary targets, except for Green > Violetear. We ended up having to chase a couple things elsewhere, > but for the most part did well at the ranch with killer looks at > Golden-cheeked Warbler and Black-capped Vireo, as well as several > Jade-striped Sylphs, including three females ovipositing aerially > just feet away, and one in-hand, brief looks at an Orange-striped > Threadtail, fine looks at Dragonhunters . . . Tripp Davenport and > Terry Hibbitts were also with us, and thankfully so as Tripp took us > to his Ranch and we found a Coppery Dancer there, which turned out > to be our only one of the weekend, and we scoured Terry's Mexican > Wedgetail locations in Uvalde Couty without luck . . . > > Sunday we made a quick round trip looking for Blue-faced Ringtails > without luck, but found Ivory-striped Sylph and Cyrano Darner at > Martin Reid's fine discovery location at the Medina River Natural > Area in southern Bexar County, and we had voluminous numbers of > Cobra Clubtails at Gonzales before returning to Ingram to end the > trip with a pristine Green Violetear . . . > > i will be writing up notes on the Jade-striped Sylphs as well. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Trip Report: Kerr County, 14 June 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:06:56 +0000 i've also been trying to locate a place to regularly observe/find Orange Shadowdragon in Kerr County . . . i have had two of these previously, one time, one location . . . last evening through dusk i spent on the dam at Ingram Dam Lake, and had a single large ode at 9:04pm, virtually dark, and could make nothing of it, it was out of net range . . . tonight i did similar, by standing in the Guadalupe River below the UGRA Dam in Kerrville until i could see no longer, and then going up on the dam until too dark to see there . . . i had one large darner below the dam at 8:36pm, and two medium sized bugs in the near dark above the dam at 9:03pm, at about the same time i had a sudden influx of Purple Martins and Chimney Swifts, followed shortly by a couple of Common Nighthawks . . . no IDs on those bugs in the course of the day i walked about a mile of the Guadalupe, mostly *in* the Guadalupe and found my first county Coral-fronted Threadtails which i've looked for for years; photographed and vouchered. also had my second visual record ever of Filigree Skimmer for the county but it never sat and was way out of range for both camera and net . . . Kerr County, 14 June 2009, tony gallucci, 31 species A=Guadalupe main channel, sloughs and rapids from below UGRA Dam downstream about one mile, 12:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m., 8:15 p.m.-9:15 p.m. B=Hill Country Youth Ranch, Winston and Chapel Ponds, 6:15 p.m.-7:00 p.m. A-B CALOPTERYGIDAE – Jewelwing Family (2 species) 2600-0 AT Hetaerina americana (American Rubyspot) last one at 8:49pm 430-0 Hetaerina titia (Smoky Rubyspot) last one at 8:46pm PROTONEURIDAE – Threadtail Family (2 species) 16-0 AT # Neoneura aaroni (Coral-fronted Threadtail) COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family (21 species) 1-0 Argia fumipennis violacea (Violet Dancer) 60-0 Argia immunda (Kiowa Dancer) 300-0 AT Argia moesta (Powdered Dancer) last one at 8:43pm 24-0 Argia nahuana (Aztec Dancer) 300-0 Argia sedula (Blue-ringed Dancer) 6-0 Argia translata (Dusky Dancer) 30-4 AT Enallagma basidens (Double-striped Bluet) last one at 8:44pm 6-0 AT Enallagma exsulans (Stream Bluet) 0-2 Enallagma signatum (Orange Bluet) 30-20 Ischnura hastata (Citrine Forktail) last one at 8:44pm AESHNIDAE – Darner Family (4 species) 1-0 darner sp. 8:36pm GOMPHIDAE – Clubtail Family (9 species) 1-0 Erpetogomphus designatus (Eastern Ringtail) 0-1 Gomphus graslinellus (Pronghorn Clubtail) 0-1 Gomphus militaris (Sulphur-tipped Clubtail) 3-0 Hagenius brevistylus (Dragonhunter) 2-0 AT Phyllogomphoides albrighti (Five-striped Leaftail) 8-0 AT Phyllogomphoides stigmatus (Four-striped Leaftail) CORDULIDAE – Emerald Family (3 species) 0-1 Epitheca petechialis (Dot-winged Baskettail) 0-1 Epitheca princeps (Prince Baskettail) LIBELLULIDAE – Skimmer Family (37 species) 16-30 Dythemis velox (Swift Setwing) 6-4 AT Erythemis simplicicollis (Eastern Pondhawk) 4-0 AT Libellula comanche (Comanche Skimmer) 14-2 Libellula luctuosa (Widow Skimmer) 1-0 Orthemis ferruginea (Roseate Skimmer) 1-0 Perithemis tenera (Eastern Amberwing) 4-1 Plathemis lydia (Common Whitetail) 1-0 Pseudoleon superbus (Filigree Skimmer) second county visual record, still undocumented 2-0 medium-sized dragons at 9:03pm above the spillway tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! 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Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Trip Report: Kerr, Real, Bandera Counties, 13 June 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:58:15 +0000 i spent this weekend trying to find some things that i feel like must be in Kerr County, but haven't been found here yet . . . some of this may be for lack of access in the far western part of the county. nevertheless, in quest of Lavender Dancer, Coppery Dancer, Jade-striped Sylph, Ivory-striped Sylph and two species which i have seen in the county but not yet documented - Filigree Skimmer and Red Rock Skimmer, and the possibility of a couple more things which i consider possible based on recently found locations -- Orange-bellied Skimmer and Golden-winged Dancer; i scoured what places i could get to on Saturday, with exactly zero success. i had a great time anyway, discovering a new location, and managing to stir up a few nice things. List follows . . . i apologize for the formatting mess on last weekend's post, it doesn't look like that on the document that i pasted from . . . so i'm assuming this post may be just as messy . . . if anyone wants this in a more readable form let me know and i'll send you a pdf. Kerr/Real/Bandera Counties, 13 June 2009, tony gallucci, 34 sp. Kerr Co.., Sunset Cemetery behind Heart of thge Hills Fisheries Research Center off TX27, John Creek Fork of the Guadalupe River CALOPTERYGIDAE – Jewelwing Family (2 species) 4 Hetaerina americana (American Rubyspot) COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family (21 species) 6 Argia immunda (Kiowa Dancer) 2 Argia nahuana (Aztec Dancer) 6 AT Argia plana (Springwater Dancer) 2 AT Enallagma civile (Familiar Bluet) 2 AT Ischnura hastata (Citrine Forktail) CORDULIIDAE – Emerald Family (3 species) 1 Epitheca princeps (Prince Baskettail) LIBELLULIDAE – Skimmer Family (37 species) 2 Dythemis velox (Swift Setwing) 1 Erythemis simplicicollis (Eastern Pondhawk) Kerr Co., Pond at Kerr/Real Cos. Line at Garven Store next to flood gauge on TX41 COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family (21 species) 2 Enallagma civile (Familiar Bluet) LIBELLULIDAE – Skimmer Family (37 species) 1 Erythemis simplicicollis (Eastern Pondhawk) 1 Libellula luctuosa (Widow Skimmer) 1 Orthemis ferruginea (Roseate Skimmer) 3 Plathemis lydia (Common Whitetail) 2 Tramea onusta (Red Saddlebags) Real Co., Pond at corner of TX41 and US83 at Garven Store COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family (21 species) * check pics Argia leonorae (Leonora's Dancer) 1 Enallagma basidens (Double-striped Bluet) 3 Enallagma civile (Familiar Bluet) CORDULIIDAE – Emerald Family (3 species) 1 Epitheca petechialis (Dot-winged Baskettail) LIBELLULIDAE – Skimmer Family (37 species) 1 Libellula luctuosa (Widow Skimmer) 1 Plathemis lydia (Common Whitetail) Bandera Co., Creek flow above Lost Maples SNA on TX187 CALOPTERYGIDAE – Jewelwing Family (2 species) 4 Hetaerina americana (American Rubyspot) COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family (21 species) 1 Argia immunda (Kiowa Dancer) LIBELLULIDAE – Skimmer Family (37 species) 2 Dythemis velox (Swift Setwing) Bandera Co., Sabinal River just below Lost Maples SNA on TX187 COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family (21 species) 2 Argia immunda (Kiowa Dancer) 1 Argia translata (Dusky Dancer) Kerr Co., 1st Smith Crossing on TX 39m South Fork of the Guadalupe River COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family (21 species) 12 AT Argia immunda (Kiowa Dancer) * check pics Argia leonorae (Leonora's Dancer) 4 AT Argia nahuana (Aztec Dancer) 1 Argia sedula (Blue-ringed Dancer) 2 AT Argia translata (Dusky Dancer) 1 Enallagma civile (Familiar Bluet) 2 Telebasis salva (Desert Firetail) GOMPHIDAE – Clubtail Family (9 species) 1 Phyllogomphoides albrighti (Five-striped Leaftail) LIBELLULIDAE – Skimmer Family (37 species) 1 Celithemis fasciata (Banded Pennant) 2 Erythemis simplicicollis (Eastern Pondhawk) 12 Libellula comanche (Comanche Skimmer) 4 Libellula luctuosa (Widow Skimmer) 2 Plathemis lydia (Common Whitetail) Kerr Co., Lynxhaven Crossing to Skull Gulch off TX39 on South Fork of Guadalupe River CALOPTERYGIDAE – Jewelwing Family (2 species) 30 Hetaerina americana (American Rubyspot) COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family (21 species) 40 AT Argia fumipennis violacea (Violet Dancer) 18 Argia immunda (Kiowa Dancer) 4 AT Argia nahuana (Aztec Dancer) 14 Argia sedula (Blue-ringed Dancer) 34 Argia translata (Dusky Dancer) 1 AT dark bluet sp. 4 Enallagma basidens (Double-striped Bluet) 32 AT Enallagma exsulans (Stream Bluet) 20 AT Enallagma praevarum (Arroyo Bluet) 6 Enallagma signatum (Orange Bluet) 6 Ischnura hastata (Citrine Forktail) 2 AT Ischnura posita posita (Fragile Forktail) 1 Ischnura ramburii (Rambur's Forktail) 4 AT Telebasis salva (Desert Firetail) GOMPHIDAE – Clubtail Family (9 species) 2 Clubtail sp. 1 AT Dromogomphus spinosus (Black-shouldered Spinyleg) 2 Hagenius brevistylus (Dragonhunter) LIBELLULIDAE – Skimmer Family (37 species) 1 Dythemis nigrescens (Black Setwing) 2 Dythemis velox (Swift Setwing) 4 Erythemis simplicicollis (Eastern Pondhawk) 1 Erythrodiplax umbrata (Band-winged Dragonlet) 8 Libellula comanche (Comanche Skimmer) 8 Libellula luctuosa (Widow Skimmer) Kerr Co., outflow below Ingram Dam Lake, and pond below dam, and from dam CALOPTERYGIDAE – Jewelwing Family (2 species) 4 Hetaerina americana (American Rubyspot) COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family (21 species) 15 Argia moesta (Powdered Dancer) 4 Argia sedula (Blue-ringed Dancer) 1 AT Ischnura ramburii (Rambur's Forktail) GOMPHIDAE – Clubtail Family (9 species) 3 Erpetogomphus designatus (Eastern Ringtail) 1 Gomphus militaris (Sulphur-tipped Clubtail) LIBELLULIDAE – Skimmer Family (37 species) 4 Erythemis simplicicollis (Eastern Pondhawk) 2 Libellula luctuosa (Widow Skimmer) 1 large odonate at 9:04pm above the spillway tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Trip Report (Late): Texas Hill Country, 5-7 June 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:43:21 +0000 Last weekend Josh Rose came up to spend a few days bug and bird chasing in the Hill Country. I have been struggling all week with a number of IDs on things (mostly beetles, misc. bugs, clams) we photographed and wanted to post a full list to this listserv and my blog, but it's dragging on and so rather than linger any longer, i am posting at least the odonates from the full weekend . . . Josh had a set of ode and bird targets and we managed to knock out everything on his primary list . . . we got about half of the things on his secondary list, and he added a few things he hadn't counted on as well . . . The big target location was our Big Springs Ranch in Real County which has had all of his primary targets, except for Green Violetear. We ended up having to chase a couple things elsewhere, but for the most part did well at the ranch with killer looks at Golden-cheeked Warbler and Black-capped Vireo, as well as several Jade-striped Sylphs, including three females ovipositing aerially just feet away, and one in-hand, brief looks at an Orange-striped Threadtail, fine looks at Dragonhunters . . . Tripp Davenport and Terry Hibbitts were also with us, and thankfully so as Tripp took us to his Ranch and we found a Coppery Dancer there, which turned out to be our only one of the weekend, and we scoured Terry's Mexican Wedgetail locations in Uvalde Couty without luck . . . Sunday we made a quick round trip looking for Blue-faced Ringtails without luck, but found Ivory-striped Sylph and Cyrano Darner at Martin Reid's fine discovery location at the Medina River Natural Area in southern Bexar County, and we had voluminous numbers of Cobra Clubtails at Gonzales before returning to Ingram to end the trip with a pristine Green Violetear . . . i will be writing up notes on the Jade-striped Sylphs as well. Complete list (53 species, plus probably one more at least) follows. Numerous locations, Kerr, Gillespie, Real, Uvalde, Kendall, Bexar, Caldwell, Guadalupe & Gonzales Cos., 5-7 June 2009, Joshua Rose, Tony Gallucci, Tripp Davenport & Terry Hibbitts, 53+ species AT =photographed #=voucher *=locations with odonates A=on the road and incidental species, Kerr County, 5 June 2009 B=McMillan House, Tierra Linda, Gillespie County, 5 June 2009 (unsuccessful wait for Green Violetear) C=Riedel House, Kerr County, 5 June 2009 D=on the road and incidental species, Kerr, Real & Uvalde Cos., 6 June 2009 *E=Big Springs Ranch, Real County, 6 June 2009 (successful search for Jade-striped Sylph, Dragonhunter, Orange-striped Threadtail, Golden-cheeked Warbler, Black-capped Vireo, Hutton’s Vireo) *F=Davenport Ranch, Montell, Candelaria Creek, Uvalde County, 6 June 2009 (successful search for Coppery Dancer) *G=19-Mile Crossing on the Nueces River, Uvalde County, 6 June 2009 (unsuccessful search for Comanche Dancer, Mexican Wedgetail) *H=Uvalde City Park, Uvalde, Uvalde County, 6 June 2009 (unsuccessful search for Mexican Wedgetail) *J=Fort Inge Historical Park, Uvalde County, 6 June 2009 (successful search for Orange-striped Threadtail) K=on the road and incidental species, Kerr, Kendall, Bexar, Caldwell, Guadalupe & Gonzales Counties, 7 June 2009 *L=Medina River Natural Area, Bexar County, 7 June 2009 (successful search for Ivory-striped Sylph, unsuccessful search for Blue- faced Ringtail) *M=Independence Park, Gonzales, Gonzales County, 7 June 2009 (unsuccessful search for Blue-faced Ringtail) N=Isom House, Ingram, Kerr County, 7 June 2009 (successful wait for Green Violetear) P=Cade Loop Crossing, Ingram, Kerr County, 7 June 2009 Q=Rio Vista Crossing, Ingram, Kerr County, 7 June 2009 (unsuccessful search for Comanche Dancer) *R=Hill Country Youth Ranch, Ingram, Kerr County, 7 June 2009 S= Riedel House, Kerr County, 7 June 2009 PROTONEURIDAE – Threadtail Family Orange-striped Threadtail, Protoneura cara (E-1, J-1) Amelia’s Threadtail, Neoneura amelia (J-2) CALOPTERYGIDAE – Jewelwing Family American Rubyspot, Hetaerina americana (Fabricius) (E-60, F-6, H-20, J-60, L-4, M-30) Smoky Rubyspot, Hetaerina titia (F-4, J-8, L-50, M-100) LESTIDAE – Spreadwing Family Great Spreadwing, Archilestes grandis (Rambur) (E-1) COENAGRIONIDAE – Pond Damsel Family Blue-fronted Dancer,, Argia apicalis (M-20) Kiowa Dancer, Argia immunda (Hagen) (E-60, F-10, G-10, H-2, L-2, M-6, R-2) Coppery Dancer, Argia cuprea (Hagen) (F-1) Aztec Dancer, Argia nahuana Calvert (E-40) AT # Unidentified Dancer sp. I, Argia sp. [cf. plana/nahuana?] (E-40) AT # Springwater Dancer, Argia plana Calvert (E-2) AT # Violet Dancer, Argia fumipennis violacea (Hagen) (E-20, G-20, H-2) Blue-ringed Dancer, Argia sedula (Hagen) (E-80, F-20, G-10, H-2, J-10, L-4, M-20, R-1) Powdered Dancer, Argia moesta (J-30, L-30, M-1500) Dusky Dancer, Argia translata (E-100, F-10, G-30, H-10, J-80, L-20, M-100, R-4) Unidentified Dancer sp. II, Argia sp. (H-1) Arroyo Bluet, Enallagma praevarum (Hagen) (E-15, M-1) Double-striped Bluet, Enallagma basidens Calvert (E-100, F-10, H-10, J-2, M-2, R-2) Orange Bluet, Enallagma signatum (H-30, J-20, R-20) Stream Bluet, Enallagma exsulans (E-10, M-4) Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile (H-1) Citrine Forktail, Ischnura hastata (R-2) Fragile Forktail, Ischnura posita (J-2) Rambur’s Forktail, Ischnura ramburii (H-10) Desert Firetail, Telebasis salva (Hagen) (E-30, H-10, J-8) AESHNIDAE – Darner Family Cyrano Darner, Nasiaeschna pentacantha (L-1) AT GOMPHIDAE – Clubtail Family Eastern Ringtail, Erpetogomphus designatus Hagen in Sélys (L-4, M-4) in copula pair being eaten by Cyrano Darner Sulphur-tipped Clubtail, Gomphus militaris Hagen in Sélys (J-1) Cobra Clubtail, Gomphus cf. vastus (M-40) AT # Five-striped Leaftail, Phyllogomphoides albrighti (E-1, J-2, L-1, M-2) Dragonhunter, Hagenius brevistylus Sélys (E-4, M-1) Black-shouldered Spinyleg, Dromogomphus spoliatus (E-1, F-1, L-1) Russet-tipped Clubtail, Stylurus plagiatus (H-1) MACROMIIDAE – Cruiser Family River Cruiser sp., Macromia sp. (L-1) CORDULIDAE – Emerald Family Dot-winged-complex Baskettail, Epitheca cf. petechialis (R-3) Prince Baskettail, Epitheca princeps (E-2, R-3) LIBELLULIDAE – Skimmer Family Pale-faced Clubskimmer, Brechmorhoga mendax (Hagen) (E-18, F-2, G-1, L-2) Swift Setwing, Dythemis velox Hagen (E-40, F-3, G-10, H-2, J-3, R-8) Checkered Setwing, Dythemis fugax Hagen (E-4) Black Setwing, Dythemis nigrescens Calvert (E-1, H-1, J-2) Eastern Pondhawk, Erythemis simplicicollis simplicicollis (Say) (E-10, H-1, J-8, M-2) Comanche Skimmer, Libellula comanche Calvert (E-25) Flame Skimmer, Libellula saturata Uhler (E-8) Neon Skimmer, Libellula croceipennis Sélys (E-1) Widow Skimmer, Libellula luctuosa (E-12) Jade-striped Sylph, Macrothemis inequiunguis Karsch (E-5 [3f,1m,1u]) AT # Ivory-striped Sylph, Macrothemis imitans leucozona Calvert (l-1) AT Hyacinth Glider, Miathyria marcella (J-240) Roseate Skimmer, Orthemis ferruginea (Fabricius) (E-1) Filigree Skimmer, Pseudoleon superba (E-1, H-1?) second for the Ranch Common Whitetail, Plathemis lydia (Drury) (E-2) Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis (Burmeister) (E-3, H-2, J-2) Eastern Amberwing, Perithemis tenera (H-3) cf. Slough Amberwing, Perithemis domitia (H-10 prob.) Wandering Glider, Pantala flavescens (Fabricius) (R-1) Red Saddlebags, Tramea onusta (G-1) tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Neon Skimmer ovipositing From: Elizabeth Moon <elizabeth.moon AT sff.net> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:39:33 -0500 6/12/09. Female Neon Skimmer, no male in sight, ovipositing in the lily pond about 2 pm. Have not seen a male at the backyard pond, but RSM saw one at the other end of the place, at the small pond there, earlier in the week. These two locations are about 3/8 mile apart. Earlier in the day, two male Blue Dashers were squabbling over territory in the same pond. Desert Firetail males were at both locations; females at the backyard pond. Elizabeth Moon Williamson County Subject: RE: West Texas From: "Terry Hibbitts" <thibb AT swtexas.net> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:08:53 -0500 I headed out to ZH Canyon on the Miller Ranch on Monday (June 8). On the way I stopped off at Post Park south of Marathon. I found: American Rubyspot, Kiowa Dancer, Blue-ringed Dancer, Aztec Dancer, Paiute Dancer, Arroyo Bluet, Double-striped Bluet, Familiar Bluet, Black-fronted Forktail, Mexican Forktail, Fragile Forktail, Desert Firetail, Desert Whitetail, Comanche Skimmer, Swift Setwing, Checkered Setwing, Eastern Amberwing, Eastern Pondhawk, Black Saddlebags, Red Saddlebags, Sulphur-tipped Clubtail Two days at ZH Canyon (June 8 and 9): American Rubyspot, Lavender Dancer, Springwater Dancer, Sooty Dancer, Fiery-eyed Dancer, Amethyst Dancer, Desert Firetail , Great Spreadwing, Painted Damsel, Arroyo Bluet, Flame Skimmer, Rock Skimmer, Filagree Skimmer, Giant Darner On the way home on the 10 June. I stopped at creek crossing north of Fort Davis on the TX 118 and found: American Rubyspot (look at picture, could it be a Canyon Rubyspot), Springwater Dancer, Sooty Dancer, Painted Damsel, Arroyo Bluet, Mexican Forktail, Western Pondhawk, Flame Skimmer, Plateau Dragonlet I also stopped below the dam of Lake Balmorhea (what a mess). I found: Aztec Dancer, Springwater Dancer, Kiowa Dancer, Powdered Dancer, Familiar Bluet, Black-fronted Forktail, Desert Firetail, Desert Whitetail, Roseate Skimmer, Comanche Skimmer, Bleached Skimmer, ?? Pondhawk, Variegated Meadowlark, Green Darner. I was disappointed that I did not get a photo of the Bleached Skimmer, but I was up to my rear in mud and could not move very well. Rubyspot photograph: http://www.thehibbitts.net/images/Rubyspot.TX.JeffDavis.09.5693m.jpg Terry Hibbitts Camp Wood, TX www.thehibbitts.net P.S. I am glad that the Spaghum sprite was identified. I looked back through my photos from the Beaver Ponds and found that I had taken several pictures but placed them in my Southern Sprite folder. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: new images of some uncommon to rare and local Texas odes posted From: "Greg Lasley" <glasley AT earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:14:34 -0000 Dear TexOdes: I have been in the field a good bit the past week and I have added a number of new pages of odonates to my web site as well as more images to pages that I already had. For anyone interested, new species not previoulsy posted on my web site include: Claret Pondhawk Vermilion Saddlebags Red-tipped Swampdamsel (this common name not yet official) Ornate Pennant Elegant Spreadwing Duckweed Firetail Attenuated Bluet New images were added to the following pages of odonates which I already had pages on: Cream-tipped Swampdamsel Southern Sprite Blue-striped Spreadwing Bar-winged Skimmer Bar-sided Darner Amanda's Pennant I have added a number of images of more widespread/routine odonates as well as a few butterflies, but I will not list them here. If you are interested go to the June 11 update at: http://www.greglasley.net/whatsnew.html Thanks to Martin Reid for good field companionship on a trip to east Texas as well as the valley. I will be on the road much of the next two weeks, most of that time outside of Texas, but I hope to get some photos of the Sphagnum Sprite (Nehalennia gracilis) in east Texas early next week. Martin already has some posted at: http://www.martinreid.com/Odonata%20website/odonate191.html Best to all, Greg Lasley Austin Subject: Santa Ana this morning - lots of rare stuff From: Martin Reid <upupa AT airmail.net> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:06:23 -0500 Dear All, Greg Lasley and I went back to Santa Ana and spent most of the morning at the front pond - but first-thing we walked the trails to and near Willow Pond. We saw few bugs, but did find two male Blue-striped Spreadwings L. tenuatus in the usual spot (see previous posts on this species) plus a couple of Rainpool Spreadwings L. forficula and on the walk back found two perched male Bar-sided Darners G. mexicana. While overlooking the remnant water from the gazebo at Willow Pond, I saw a black skimmer sp. fly though; it had almost all of both wings black (with more seemingly on the hindwings, but to some extent this could be due to the HWs being larger) frankly it looked rather like a male Filigree Skimmer S. superbus, but it could also have been a male Black- winged Dragonlet E. funerea. A couple of hours later at the north end of the Entrance Pond I saw an identical skimmer fly low over a section of the pond, then come back past a few seconds later, not to be seen again. I'm puzzled by these sightings, as it seems to me strange - if they are Filigree Skimmers - to see two of them flying over different heavily-vegetated ponds when there is quite a lot of flowing water (= irrigation channels) for them to use. At the Entrance Pond Greg found a few more Leptobasis vacillans while I slogged around the north edge. There were more Vermilion Saddlebags T. abdominalis among the many Red and Striped Saddlebags T. onusa and calverti. We found THREE male Claret Pondhawks E. "mithroides" around the pond, and were able to show two of them to Tom Pendleton who found us late in the morning; pics (of the Pondhawk, not Tom) are here: http://www.martinreid.com/Odonata%20website/odonate192.html Also flying over the pond were a handful of Anax Darners; most were Green Darners A. junius, but there was one definite female Comet Darner that we both saw and Greg watched ovipositing briefly. I also saw what might have been a dull male Comet Darner on the far side, and I managed to get an unexpected pic of a flying darner that I'd seen briefly the day before; the photo, while rather poor, strongly points to it being a male Blue-Spotted Comet Darner A. concolor. So, a mystery black-winged skimmer, probably three species of Anax darner, multiple Claret Pondhawks and Vermilion Saddlebags, plus Leptobasis vacillans, Leptobasis melinogaster (Cream-tipped Swampdamsel), Blue-striped Spreadwing, and Bar-sided Darner at the Refuge today in about 4 hours.. I wonder what's there that we've not yet found?! Cheers, Martin --- Martin Reid www.martinreid.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Some great Odes at Santa Ana today From: "Martin" <upupa AT airmail.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:28:42 -0000 Dear all, Greg Lasley and I made a mega-early start and got to Santa Ana at c.8.30am this morning. We spent almost all of the day there, and all the good stuff was on or near the Entrance Pond. I'm too tired to list everything, but here are the highlights: Claret Pondhawk E. "mithroides" - a stonking male that we had to get wet to photograph - but boy did he pose well! Vermilion Saddlebags T. abdominalis - at least 5 males patrolling and perched, one allowing Greg to get some decent images. (no formal common name yet) Leptobasis vacillans - a least 5 mature males, 2 younger males, and one young female. Cream-tipped Swampdamsel Leptobasis melinogaster - c. 10 including young and mature males and females Turquoise-tipped Darner R. psilus - two feeding/patrolling I saw two flying Anax that were not junius (among others that were); not great looks, but they looked most like youngish male and female Comet longipes. Many Pin-tailed Pondhawks, Chalky Spreadwings, Thornbush Dashers, etc. NOTE: while the front pond looks nicely full (for now), Willow Ponds are almost dried-up... if this happens it may put a damper (should that be drier?) on the Fall Ode season at that part of Santa Ana. We did not see any Spreadwings or Darners there, nor anything else but common taxa. early June is THE time for Claret Pondhawk in the Valley (= in the U.S.), so come on down if you can. Cheers, Martin and Greg Subject: Okay; pics of the Sphagnum Sprites! From: Martin Reid <upupa AT airmail.net> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:32:53 -0500 Dear All, Greg emailed me and asked me to put up my pics of the new Sprite as, although he'll probably be photographing them himself early next week it will be at the start of a long road trip that would prevent images being seen until the end of June. Thus, here they are: http://www.martinreid.com/Odonata%20website/odonate191.html Congrats again Greg on a really significant discovery. Martin --- Martin Reid www.martinreid.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Sphagnum Sprite: credit where it's due From: Martin Reid <upupa AT airmail.net> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 19:58:51 -0500 Dear All, Two things: Greg is, as always, too modest to blow his own trumpet - so I'll do it for him; On Thursday as we made our first inspection of the wonderful Beaver Ponds we were seeing loads of Southern Sprites. As I wandered to the outflow end of the larger pond I noted 3 or 4 sprites with lots of blue on the abdomen, and mentally thought "they look odd...nah - they're just variation on Southern Sprite I guess" and moved on. I had not prepared well for this trip in that I was totally unaware of what a Sphagnum Sprite looked like. A little bit later Greg called me over to look at a "Sprite with lots of blue at the end"; as I closed on him he was describing the bug perfectly and saying that it looked really different from the Southerns. I got there, took a brief look to confirm it was the same critter I'd been seeing, and pronounced "oh that's just variation in Southern Sprite" and went off looking on my own again. Greg took the initiative and caught one, as his instincts were telling him it was different. If Greg had not done this, we'd still not know about this species being in Texas. Greg deserves ALL the credit - it's his find, and I have no share in it (actually, unwittingly I did my best to PREVENT its discovery!) So, Congratulations Greg for a spectacular find (and for sticking with your instincts even when mine had failed me). Secondly, I felt so bad about my part in Thursday's events that I got up at 3am this morning and drove back there... (yes, I'm that crazy). After a nervous 40 minutes not finding any towards the lower dam I finally found one, then as I moved further up, I found some more, and then at one spot there were lots of them - a minimum of 30 males, plus 4 pairs in tandem. One of the males was not fully mature (opaque milky-coffee colored eyes and S8-10), but otherwise all looked mature. I also saw more teneral Amanda's and Ornate Pennants, and got a poorish NCR photo of Lillypad Forktail. I will eventually post pics of the Sprites, but Greg is going back there next Monday with John Abbott, so I'll wait to let him post the first pics of this great bug. Cheers, Martin --- Martin Reid www.martinreid.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Mystery Saddlebags @ Edinburg WBC From: MiriamEagl AT aol.com Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:51:46 EDT Hi, all! I was over at Edinburg Scenic wetlands and was shooting some common leps when I saw this sadllebags-type dragon patrolling over the shallow pond to the west of the visitor's center. There was also a Red-tailed Pennant there, but the saddlebags wouldn't stop, so I wasn't able to get the best shots, but the closest match in the book looked like Carolina Saddlebags, which apparently doesn't occur here. Any feedback would be appreciated! Also had a pretty Desert Firetail and a rather large ode that I thought was a type of darner at first due to the way it perched, but the closest match appears to be a female Neon Skimmer. It was in the shadows and I couldn't get the best look at it. Here's the link to the pics: _http://www.pbase.com/miriameaglemon/inbox_ (http://www.pbase.com/miriameaglemon/inbox) MB Mary Beth Stowe McAllen, TX _www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! 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Pacific Northwest Odes http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NW_Odes/ and i had to ban another spammer on TexOdes . . . sorry you had to deal with those goofy posts . . . tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ SkyDrive™: Get 25 GB of free online storage. http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_SD_25GB_062009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! 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Martin Reid made a post this morning about a trip he and I just completed to east Texas listing the locations we visited. At the spot we called "Beaver Ponds" in the Angelina National Forest in Jasper Co., we had hundreds, probably thousands of Southern Sprite (Nehalennia integricollis) as Martin said. We had a few sprites here that we were not able to get photos of that had more blue at the end of the abdomen than typical. I was able to collect one, however. At home I noted a number of differences between this odd sprite and the more typical Southern Sprites, including that the odd bug was ca 10% longer than all the others, and that all of segments S8-10 were blue. To make a long story short, I sent Dennis Paulson some very close macro shots of the specimen a short while ago and we learned from him that our odd sprite is Sphagnum Sprite (Nehalennia gracilis). Dennis indicated this species seems to be tied to sphagnum moss and there is lots of this around the edges to these ponds. There has never before been a record of this species west of Alabama save for a single record in southeastern Missouri Dennis tells me. So, chalk up another new Texas species. Greg Lasley Austin Subject: Companies need your input in order to be successful. From: <mmmmm_mmmmmm97 AT yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 23:49:23 +0300 Companies need your input in order to be successful. They need to know what everyday people want in their products, what they prefer, and what will prompt them to buy the products and services the company offers. This is called market research. By providing companies with this information, you are providing them with a valuable service. It gives them an edge on the competition and aids them in the success of their products and services. And You Get Paid for helping Them to Succeed! Click here : http://microsoft-office-live.blogspot.com/2009/05/working-at-home.html Subject: Report from San Jacinto, Tyler and Jasper counties From: Martin Reid <upupa AT airmail.net> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 08:53:23 -0500 Dear All, Greg Lasley and I made a two-night trip to east Texas Thurs-Sat, with generally good results. However, three of Texas' more enigmatic species remained just that: we could not find Furtive Forktail E. prognata, Gulf Coast Clubtail G. modestus, or Laura's Clubtail S. laurae - despite spending quite a lot of time at known sites for each of them. We surmise that a combination of them being low-density creatures and of their habits (prone to spending lots of time high in trees) makes an encounter with any of these three taxa a matter of luck or dogged persistence. We did see a number of poorly-known (in Texas) species, the highlights being Texas Emerald S. margarita, Amanda's and Ornate Pennants C. amanda and ornata, Elegant Spreadwing L inequalis, Attenuated Bluet E. daecki, and Southern Sprite N. intergricollis. We spent most of our time at two sites: the parking lot and nearby road bridge at Big Creek Scenic Area in San Jacinto County (BCSA) 30°30'10.24"N 95° 5'29.44"W. The Beaver Ponds recently found by Terry Hibbitts near the dam at Sam Rayburn Reservoir, Jasper county (BP) 31° 3'27.12"N 94° 9'30.95"W. Other sites that we spent some time at were: the Picnic Area pond 3m west of Woodville, Tyler county (WPA) 30°45'55.81"N. A short private stretch of Big Creek behind Lake Pool Church, Shepherd (LPC). The large pond on Wright Lane, Shepherd (WLP) 30°29'19.67"N 94°58'30.50"W. Sheldon Lake Educational Learning Center in Harris county (SLELC) 29°51'25.79"N 95° 9'36.62"W - note that our visit here was very brief and at c.4pm when roasting hot, thus not much was seen - but I've seen numerous Bayou and Stillwater Clubtails A. maxwelli and lentulus (along the entrance road creek) in May and early June previously, plus a number of other interesting odes, and I did not cover all the habitats there. The list: Ebony Jewelwing Calopteryx maculata: numerous at BCSA, a few at WPA, BP and LPC. Elegant Spreadwing Lestes inaequalis: one, possibly two males at BP - new County Record (photos). Swamp Spreadwing Lestes vigilax: numerous at BP; a couple at WPA. Violet Dancer Argia fumipennis violacea: two at WPA. Powdered Dancer Argia moesta: numerous at BCSA and LPC. Blue-ringed Dancer Argia sedula: one at BP. Blue-tipped Dancer Argia tibialis: fairly common at BCSA and a few at LPC; one at BP. Double-striped Bluet Enallagma basidens: a few at BP. Attenuated Bluet Enallagma daeckii: small numbers at WPA; common at BP (late date; photos). Burgundy Bluet Enallagma dubium: a few at BP (NCR; photos). Skimming Bluet Enallagma geminatum: one at WPA. Orange Bluet Enallagma signatum: one at BP. Slender Bluet Enallagma traviatum westfalli: one at WPA (would have been a late date, but no photo). Vesper Bluet Enallagma vesperum: one definite male and one probable female (photos - would be NCR if confirmed) at BP. Citrine Forktail Ischnura hastata: fairly common at BP. Lilypad Forktail Ischnura kellicotti: common at WLP. Fragile Forktail Ischnura posita: common at BP. Rambur's Forktail Ischnura ramburii: one (!) female at BP. Southern Sprite Nehalennia integricollis: a few at WPA (NCR; photos); abundant at BP (probably thousands!). Duckweed Firetail Telebasis byersi: only one found despite much looking at BP (photos). Fawn Darner Boyeria vinosa: one patrolling creek at LPC. Swamp Darner Epiaeschna heros: a few crepuscular feeders (one caught/ released) on H2120 near BCSA; one or two glimped elsewhere. Broad-striped Forceptail Aphylla angustifolia: one at SLELC. Black-shouldered Spinyleg Dromogomphus spinosus: small numbers at BCSA, LPC, WPA. Dragonhunter Hagenius brevistylus: one male at LPC. Common Sanddragon Progomphus obscurus: six+ at LPC. Texas Emerald Somatochlora margarita: at least two at BCSA; always in feeding flight mostly over parking lot but also along road near bridge (average flight photos). Royal River Cruiser Macromia taeniolata: one at LPC (photos). Four-spotted Pennant Brachymesia gravida: one at SLELC. Amanda's Pennant Celithemis amanda: four tenerals (both sexes) at BP (early date; photos). Halloween Pennant Celithemis eponina: one at WLP; one at SLELC. Banded Pennant Celithemis fasciata: a few at WLP, WPA, BP, SLELC. Ornate/Faded Pennant Celithemis ornata: at least eight (mature males and at least one female out over the pond; some teneral males and females along edge). Eastern Pondhawk Erythemis simplicicollis: common at most locales. Little Blue Dragonlet Erythrodiplax minuscula: abundant at BP; a couple at SLELC. Golden-winged Skimmer: Libellula auripennis: small numbers at BCSA and LPC; fairly common at WLP and BP. Bar-winged Skimmer Libellula axilena: fairly common at BP and the nearby small pond first found by Greg last year. Yellow-sided Skimmer Libellula flavida: one female along Forestry track 2 miles NW of BCSA. Slaty Skimmer Libellula incesta: small numbers at BP, WPA, and SLELC. Needham's Skimmer Libellula needhami: common at SLELC. Painted Skimmer Libellula semifasciata: a few at BP (late date - photos greg?) Great Blue Skimmer Libellula vibrans: a few most locales. Hyacinth Glider Miathyria marcella: one at WLP; abundant at SLELC. Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis: fairly common most locales. Eastern Amberwing Perithemis tenera: two at WLP. Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia: one (!) near BCSA. Carolina Saddlebags Tramea carolina: a few at BP (NCR - but photos also taken nearny last year). Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata: two SLELC. Red Saddlebags Tramea onusta: a few SLELC. Regards, Martin --- Martin Reid www.martinreid.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Trip Report: Kerr County 3 June 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:32:51 +0000 i went scouting in west Kerr County for a trip planned for this weekend . . . still no emergence here on some specialty bugs that i see from TexOdes have been found already in Real and Uvalde Cos. . . . and numbers of odes here are extremely low, though diversity is good . . . TX: Kerr County, compilation of odes seen at Winston & Office Ponds, Hill Country Youth Ranch; below Ingram Dam; Rio Vista Crossing; South Fork Marsh; and Lynxhaven Crossing; 3 June 2009 22 American Rubyspot 3 Smoky Rubyspot 16 Desert Firetail 1 Citrine Forktail 1 Rambur’s Forktail (photo, first i've seen in Kerr County in several years, first doc for me) 20 Orange Bluet (ovipositing; photos) 4 Arroyo Bluet (photos) 10 Double-striped Bluet 2 Stream Bluet 1 Neotropical Bluet 16 Kiowa Dancer 36 Dusky Dancer (ovipositing; photos) 8 Powdered Dancer 4 Violet Dancer 20 Double-striped Bluet 20 Blue-ringed Dancer 1 teneral Comanche Dancer (photos) 3 Prince Baskettail 1 Dot-winged Baskettail 2 Sulphur-tipped Clubtail 1 Black-shouldered Spinyleg 1 Four-striped Leaftail 6 Banded Pennant (ovipositing) 3 Eastern Pondhawk 1 Eastern Amberwing 1 Amberwing sp. (interestingly marked individual i am going to return to try to net) 1 Checkered Setwing 4 Swift Setwing 1 Blue Dasher 10 Widow Skimmer (ovipositing) 1 Common Whitetail 1 Red Saddlebags 2 Pipevine Swallowtail 6 Sleepy Orange 1 Ceraunus Blue (photos) 1 Walnut Sphinx tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Kendall and McCollough County Odes From: "dragonflywatcher1029" <dragonflywatcher1029 AT yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:29:45 -0000 Hello All, Yesterday, while driving back from the big SA (San Antonio), I stopped at Cibolo Nature Center and later at San Saba River just south of Brady, Tx. to see what I might see and/or photograph. I got pics of several male and 1 female Swift Setwings, 1 male and several female Widow Skimmers, and 4 male Prince Baskettails (Baskettail over San Saba River). Lot of Argia species were seen and photographed. A few of the pics will need identification. Lots of A. moesta (male and females in tandem), A. sedula (several males and females), A. immunda (several males and females in tandem), A. translata (several males and females in tandem), and a number of male and female Hetaerina americana (especially along river bank at San Saba River. Jerry K. Hatfield Subject: A few more Bentsen odes From: Joshua Rose <opihi AT rgv.rr.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 23:10:50 -0500 Howdy folks, My last day at work in the park was yesterday, May 31. Had a bird walk and butterfly walk on the schedule, no dragonfly walk. But saw some noteworthy odonates anyway: Arch-tipped Glider (Tauriphila argo): one male was patrolling near Kingfisher Overlook, another plus a female along the roadside near the head of the Resaca Vieja Trail. After not seeing a trace of this species on my last few dragonfly walks, I think I'm buying into Martin Reid's theory that this species is most active before noon. Mexican Scarlet-tail (Planiplax sanguiniventris): I did not see this one myself yesterday, but Tom Pendleton checked around mid-day and confirmed that the species was still present on La Parida Banco. Ringed Forceptail (Phyllocycla breviphylla): one female flew up and perched in the brush beside Hackberry Road Coral-fronted Threadtail (Neoneura aaroni): finally found one male patrolling over the irrigation canal downstream of the Bentsen Palm Drive bridge, I think just the second sighting of the species at Bentsen this year, following Bob Behrstock's report during Dragonfly Days... Five-striped Leaftail (Phyllogomphoides albrighti): patrolling over the canal upstream of the bridge Cheers, Josh Rose McAllen Subject: TRIP REPORT: Real Co., 30 May 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 02:52:56 +0000 trip to the ranch for the afternoon yesterday, in search of three specific odes -- Smoky Rubyspot (new to the ranch and a new for Real Co.; i'd seen one on Friday, May 29 while looking places over for Comanche Dancer habitat, which would also be new for the Ranch, and for Leonora's Dancer, likewise. was unable to relocate the rubyspot, but in the habitat, a small stand of Justicia americana, which Comanche Dancer occurs solely in in my experience, had one likely Comanche Dancer, but missed with the net, and could not relocate it, i will be back; no Leonora's despite a lot of likely looking spots with Carex. Tripp located a teneral bug whcih proved to be a Black-shouldered Spinyleg, new for the Ranch, and turns out he had photographed a couple more that a.m. at Big Springs Creek. he also took us deep into a canyon with a severely stagnant pool where he'd found some huge leeches on thursday, we caught one and it turns out to be North American Medicinal Leech . . . photos coming soon on my blog of this big thing with an orange underside, and rows of flourescent yellow and black spots dorsally . . . in that pond also however were three male Slough Amberwings, giving us a third location for that on the Ranch, plus we found 11 on the original pond. threadtails were still present at the pouroff pond, and late in the day we flushed two Jade-striped Sylphs near the outflow from Big Springs Creek. in about five and a half hours we found 36 species of odonates on the ranch, plus i'd had a Black Saddlebags at Concan that morning (the only ode i saw there), for a total of 37 for the day . . . TX: Real County, Big Springs Ranch, from below school on Frio River, to pouroff pond, and up Tripp’s Canyon, with Tripp Davenport, Zac Loman and Jill Wussow, 1:30-7:00 p.m. 10 North American Medicinal Leech/Wi’-Gi-e, Macrobdella decora (photos; voucher) Elimia comalensis (new to Ranch; voucher) Corbicula fluminea Olygyra orbiculata 1 Ghost Cranefly + Water Boatman sp. + Veliid Water Striders + Gerrid Water Striders 4 White-spotted Black Cactus Buprestid unknown skipper I (from TD photos; working on ID) unknown skipper II (from TD photos; working on ID) 1 Dun Skipper 1 Funereal Duskywing 6 Pipevine Swallowtail 1 cf. Spicebush Swallowtail 1 Question Mark 1 Bordered Patch 4 Gulf Fritillary 2 Variegated Fritillary 16 Reakirt’s Blue 1 Satyr sp.? 6 Sleepy Orange 1 Large Orange Sulpuhr 10 Dainty Sulphur 2 Checkered White 2 Great Spreadwing (photos) 30 American Rubyspot (photos) 4 Orange-striped Threadtail 20 Desert Firetail (photos) 2 Citrine Forktail (photos) 25 Double-striped Bluet 2 Stream Bluet (photo TD) 2 Arroyo Bluet 1 Orange Bluet 1 Powdered Dancer 75 Dusky Dancer 40 Blue-ringed Dancer (photos) 12 Aztec Dancer (photos) 2 Springwater Dancer (photos) [1 cf. Comanche Dancer] 1 Coppery Dancer 30 Kiowa Dancer 18 Violet Dancer (photos) 3 Dragonhunter (photos) 1 Pronghorn Clubtail 2 Clubtail sp. 3 Black-shouldered Spinyleg (new to Ranch; photos) 3 Prince Baskettail 1 Dot-winged Baskettail 8 Eastern Pondhawk 6 Blue Dasher (photos; ovipositing) 50 Swift Setwing 8 Checkered Setwing (photos) 2 Black Setwing 3 Flame Skimmer 3 Widow Skimmer 12 Comanche Skimmer 4 Common Whitetail 1 Roseate Skimmer 14 Slough Amberwing (voucher; photos; ovipositing) 3 Eastern Amberwing 2 Jade-striped Sylph tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012 _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: New Up and Flying Species for Lubbock County From: "dragonflywatcher1029" <dragonflywatcher1029 AT yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 18:29:15 -0000 Hi All, On 26-27 May, I observed the first of Epitheca princeps (several males) flying over creek at Buffalo Springs Lake (Llano Estacado Audubon Society Trail. Observed another Epitheca petechialis (male?) also. Unable to haul any of them in. The weeds along the riverbank was abundant with freshly emerged Gomphus militaris (5 males, 3 female). One of the females I scared up and it became lunch for a Robberfly waiting for the opportunity. I posted pics of Flickr. I collected the female caught by the Robberfly. Jerry K. Hatfield Subject: a great spring for damselflies in the Panhandle From: "eleodes79424" <nancy.mcintyre AT ttu.edu> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 17:17:15 -0000 Hi all, I've seen greater damselfly diversity in the Panhandle this spring than in the past 8 years! Are other parts of the state experiencing this? It's not like it's been particularly wet or warm here, so I don't know to what to attribute it. On 15 May 2009 on the Llano Estacado Nature Trail at Buffalo Springs Lake (Lubbock Co.), I collected the following: Argia fumipennis violacea (Violet Dancer) - 1 male, County record (Jerry Hatfield got photos at the same locality) Argia plana (Springwater Dancer) - 2 males, 1 female Argia moesta (Powdered Dancer) - 1 immature male Ischnura damula (Plains Forktail) - 1 female On 29 May at Dickens County Springs Park: Archilestes grandis (Giant Spreadwing) - 1 male Hetaerina americana (American Rubyspot) - 1 male, County record And at the Silver Falls rest stop on Hwy. 82 in Crosby Co. on 29 May: Argia alberta (Paiute Dancer) - 1 male, County record Argia munda (Apache Dancer) - 1 male, County record Ischnura denticollis (Black-fronted Forktail) - 1 male, County record Plathemia lydia (Common Whitetail) - 1 male and saw what would have been two other County records -- Anax junius (Common Green Darner) and Libellula saturata (Flame Skimmer) -- as well as Pachydiplax longipennis (Blue Dasher). These are all curated in my lab at Texas Tech. The collected county records have been submitted to Odonata Central. The Argia I keyed out repeatedly, always to the same endpoints. Neat species to see! Cheers, Nancy ______________________________________________________ Dr. Nancy E. McIntyre Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-3131 USA Tel. 806-742-4113 Fax 806-742-2963 nancy.mcintyre AT ttu.edu http://www.biol.ttu.edu/faculty/nmcintyre/default.aspx Subject: Re: mature male and female L. vacillans, Vermilion Saddlebags at Sa... From: MiriamEagl AT aol.com Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 08:55:40 EDT Hi, again! In a message dated 5/29/2009 7:08:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, upupa AT airmail.net writes: The individuals seen include young and mature males and females - I must say that the mature bugs are some of the best-looking damselflies I've ever seen - This answered my question--thanks, Martin! MB Mary Beth Stowe McAllen, TX _www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221322950x1201367186/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd= MaystepsfooterNO62) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Re: Photos of adult male and female Leptobasis vacillans have been ... From: MiriamEagl AT aol.com Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 08:53:32 EDT Hi, all! In a message dated 5/29/2009 6:39:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, dauphins AT sbcglobal.net writes: With Martin Reid's help, Jan was able to get some fairly good photos of adult male and female Leptobasis vacillans at Santa Ana NWR, this morning. Great shots! I'm new to the list, so please forgive me for asking a simple question, but I noticed that one of the males has a green thorax while the other male is entirely ochre; are we looking at two distinct races here, or is this just individual variation? Thanks! MB Mary Beth Stowe McAllen, TX _www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! 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Found: Red-tailed Pennants (sev) Roseate Skimmer (sev) Eastern Pondhawk (sev) Blue Dasher (sev) Black Setwing (sev) Rambur's Forktail (sev) Desert Firetail (lots) Double-striped Bluet (lots) Blue-ringed Dancer (3) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: mature male and female L. vacillans, Vermilion Saddlebags at Santa Ana From: Martin Reid <upupa AT airmail.net> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 19:07:06 -0500 Dear all, I spent most of yesterday and all of this morning at Santa Ana NWR. Among a number of localized odes, I saw 10 Leptobasis vacillans, most at a slightly different location; still at the entrance pond but to the south of the pond, close to the top end of the parking lot. The individuals seen include young and mature males and females - I must say that the mature bugs are some of the best-looking damselflies I've ever seen - take a look here: http://www.martinreid.com/Odonata%20website/odonate190b.html In the later morning I saw a Vermilion Saddlebags working the southwest corner of the entrance pond, then a few minutes later I helped Tom, Jan and Dave get their binoculars on another Vermilion Saddlebags - pics of this latest individual are at the bottom of this page: http://www.martinreid.com/Odonata%20website/odonate189.html I saw 30+ Cream-tipped Swampdamsels of both sexes and of all ages, many Turqouise-tipped Darners, one perched Bar-sided Darner, three mature male Blue-striped Spreadwings, a Three-striped Dasher, and many other expected taxa. Cheers, Martin --- Martin Reid www.martinreid.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Photos of adult male and female Leptobasis vacillans have been posted From: "david_t_dauphin" <dauphins AT sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:38:35 -0000 With Martin Reid's help, Jan was able to get some fairly good photos of adult male and female Leptobasis vacillans at Santa Ana NWR, this morning. The photos are posted at http://www.thedauphins.net/rgv_newest_photos.html . David Dauphin Mission http://www.thedauphins.net Subject: Bentsen odes 5-25 & 26-09 From: "Joshua Rose" <joshua.rose AT tpwd.state.tx.us> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:54:54 -0500 Howdy folks, Just before dark last night, I noticed a few Prince Baskettails (Epitheca princeps) feeding at treetop height near the Resaca. Showed them to the near-capacity crowd on my last-ever night program (at least, as a park staff member). I am forwarding below a post from Mary Beth Stowe, including links to her photos. She posted on TX-Butterfly, I do not think she is subscribed to TexOdes yet. We - Jan and David Dauphin, Tom Pendleton, and I - saw many of the same species on Monday 5-25-09 as she did the following day, plus a few more. Amelia's Threadtails (Neoneura amelia) were in the irrigation canal by the bridge, as usual, along with a probable Neotropical Bluet or two, a few Smoky Rubyspots (Haeterina titia), and at least four Dancers (Argia sp.): Blue-ringed, Blue-fronted, Dusky, and Powdered. Several Caribbean Yellowfaces (Neoerythromma cultellatum) and at least one Marl Pennant (Macrodiplax balteata) were on the Resaca near the Scarlettail (Planiplax sanguiniventris) and assorted skimmers, dashers, and pennants. Curiously, Checkered Setwing (Dythemis fugax), which we had been seeing fairly regularly on La Parida Banco during the first half of May, has not been nearly as conspicuous the last couple of weeks, if it is there at all... Have fun, Josh Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D. Natural Resource Specialist World Birding Center at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park http://www.worldbirdingcenter.org/sites/mission/index.phtml Joshua.Rose AT tpwd.state.tx.us (956) 584-9156 Extension 236 -----Original Message----- From: Butterfly and Lepidoptery for the state of Texas [mailto:TX-BUTTERFLY AT LISTSERV.UH.EDU] On Behalf Of Mary Beth Stowe Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:40 PM To: TX-BUTTERFLY AT LISTSERV.UH.EDU Subject: Mexican Scarlettail Still AT Bentsen Hi, all! Took a stroll down to Kingfisher Overlook this morning to shoot odes (shot some common leps and a token bird in the garden), and finally got to see the Mexican Scarlettail! I stood around for about 15 or 20 minutes, and also had (as best I could ID): Eastern Pondhawk Halloween Pennant Blue Dasher Spot-tailed Dasher Red-tailed Pennant Four-spotted Pennant Pics of everything are posted here: _ http://www.pbase.com/miriameaglemon/new_pics_tues _ (http://www.pbase.com/miriameaglemon/new_pics_tues) Enjoy! MB Mary Beth Stowe McAllen, TX _www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/) ====================================== To unsubscribe, send the message SIGNOFF TX-BUTTERFLY to LISTSERV AT LISTSERV.UH.EDU To change to the daily digest, send the message SET TX-BUTTERFLY DIGEST to LISTSERV AT LISTSERV.UH.EDU TX-BUTTERFLY archives: Subject: Dragonfly building From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 03:45:06 +0000 well it's a stretch but . . . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1186312/Garden-city-Dragonfly-shaped-skyscraper-feed-Earths-booming-population.html tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: ID help From: "Terry Hibbitts" <thibb AT swtexas.net> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 17:52:37 -0500 I found this photo in my Enallagma civile folder. After looking at it more carefully, I think it may be something else. The sad thing about this photo is that it is the only one I took. It was photographed in Garza County south of Post at roadside park off of US 84. http://thehibbitts.net/images/E.civile.TX.Garza.08.8791m.jpg I would appreciated what you think. Terry Hibbitts Camp Wood, TX www.thehibbitts.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Re: New images from south Texas posted From: Mike May <phenes53 AT yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:23:25 -0700 (PDT) Greg, et al.,   Sounds like a great time was had by all, wish I coud have been there. I appreciate all the excellent photography - it helps the vicarious enjoyment. Just wanted to point out that in the last edition of Westfall & May we suggested the name Red-tipped Swampdamsel for Leptobasis vacillans, although you're correct that it doesn't have a DSA sanctioned name yet.   Mike May --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Greg Lasley wrote: From: Greg Lasley Subject: [TexOdes] New images from south Texas posted To: TexOdes AT yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 10:33 AM Hello TexOdes Folks, I have posted some images Leptobasis vacillans (no common name yet), which was discovered at Santa Ana N.W.R., on 22 May at: http://www.greglasley.net/leptobasisvacillans.html This is a new species for North America. I also have posted some new images of Cream-tipped Swampdamsel (Leptobasis melinogaster) and Mexican Scarlet-tail (Planiplax sanguiniventris) at: http://www.greglasley.net/creamtipswamp.html http://www.greglasley.net/mexicanscarlettail.html I've added some other images of Broad-striped Forceptail, Narrow-striped Forceptail, Five-striped Leaftail, and others for any of you interested in looking. Go to my North American odonate index page at: http://www.greglasley.net/dragonnoramerix.html I will echo what Martin said in his post to this forum last evening. The Dragonfly Days Festival held each May in the lower Rio Grande Valley is a great event with good speakers, good camaraderie, and fun field trips. I hope as many of you as possible will attend next year to add support to the Valley Nature Center and Estero Llano Grande State Park, and their efforts to promote the event. There are many folks who do a great deal of work to make this event happen and it deserves more support. It is a wonderful opportunity to meet other people who are interested in these fascinating insects and to learn more about them. Everyone from beginners to experts is most welcome. I certainly had a great time during the event and met lots of new friends as well as being able to spend time with folks I've known for more years than I can count! Greg Lasley Austin ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: New images from south Texas posted From: "Greg Lasley" <glasley AT earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:33:14 -0000 Hello TexOdes Folks, I have posted some images Leptobasis vacillans (no common name yet), which was discovered at Santa Ana N.W.R., on 22 May at: http://www.greglasley.net/leptobasisvacillans.html This is a new species for North America. I also have posted some new images of Cream-tipped Swampdamsel (Leptobasis melinogaster) and Mexican Scarlet-tail (Planiplax sanguiniventris) at: http://www.greglasley.net/creamtipswamp.html http://www.greglasley.net/mexicanscarlettail.html I've added some other images of Broad-striped Forceptail, Narrow-striped Forceptail, Five-striped Leaftail, and others for any of you interested in looking. Go to my North American odonate index page at: http://www.greglasley.net/dragonnoramerix.html I will echo what Martin said in his post to this forum last evening. The Dragonfly Days Festival held each May in the lower Rio Grande Valley is a great event with good speakers, good camaraderie, and fun field trips. I hope as many of you as possible will attend next year to add support to the Valley Nature Center and Estero Llano Grande State Park, and their efforts to promote the event. There are many folks who do a great deal of work to make this event happen and it deserves more support. It is a wonderful opportunity to meet other people who are interested in these fascinating insects and to learn more about them. Everyone from beginners to experts is most welcome. I certainly had a great time during the event and met lots of new friends as well as being able to spend time with folks I've known for more years than I can count! Greg Lasley Austin Subject: Santa Ana Entrance Pond: even more great odes From: Martin Reid <upupa AT airmail.net> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 20:55:05 -0500 Dear All, I went to Santa Ana today to help one of the Dragonfly Days participants find the two Leptobasis species before we both had to head north to our homes... Here's what I saw between c. 9am and 1pm just at the northeast corner of the entrance pond: Leptobasis vacillans - one young male; my pics of one from May 22 are here: http://www.martinreid.com/Odonata%20website/odonate190.html Leptobasis melinogaster Cream-tipped Swampdamsel - 2 young males and 7 young females Lestes tenuatus Blue-striped Spreadwing - one mature male; a new location at Santa Ana for this taxon Lestes forficula Rainpool Spreadwing - several males and females, both young and mature Lestes sigma Chalky Spreadwing - very common Lestes australis Southern Spreadwing - a number of young females and a couple of young males Lestes alacer Plateau Spreadwing - one young male Argia rhoadsi Golden-winged Dancer - one mature male - a new taxon for Santa Ana, I think Ischnura ramburii Rambur's Forktail - common Ischnura hastata Citrine Forktail - fairly common Enallagma civile - Familiar Bluet - abundant Tramea abdominalis Vermilion Saddlebags - at least one worn male pics: http://www.martinreid.com/Odonata%20website/odonate189.html - at the exact same spot I found the first TX record almost four years ago. Tramea onusta Red Saddlebags - many Tramea calverti - Striped Saddlebags - fairly common Brachymesia furcata Red-tailed Pennant - fairly common Brachymesia gravida Four-spotted Pennant - a few Brachymesia herbida - Tawny Pennant - one Micrathyria aequalis - Spot-tailed Dasher - three males Micrathyria didyma - Three-striped Dasher - one male Micrathyria hageni - Thornbush Dasher - abundant Pachydiplax longipennis - Blue Dasher - abundant Orthemis discolor - Carmine Skimmer - two males Orthemis ferruginea - Roseate Skimmer - common Perithemis domitia - Slough Amberwing - two males Libellula needhami - Needham's Skimmer - two males Erythemis plebeja - Pin-tailed Pondhawk - one male Erythemis simplicicollis - Eastern Pondhawk - common Erythemis vesiculosa - Great Pondhawk - fairly common Dythemis nigrescens - Black Setwing - one female Anax Junius - Common Green Darner - two males Rhionaeschna psilus - Turquoise-tipped Darner - at least four males Gynacantha mexicana - Bar-sided Darner one probable female I'd like to finish this post by thanking the organizers of this year's Dragonfly Days festival - it was an outstanding success with a breath- taking array of star odes, and I really enjoyed myself! Thanks also to the excellent drivers and fellow leaders, and to the keen participants who made the experience so rewarding. YOU... MUST... COME... DOWN... NEXT... YEAR..... Martin --- Martin Reid www.martinreid.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Dragonfly Days sightings From: "Joshua Rose" <joshua.rose AT tpwd.state.tx.us> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:16:20 -0500 Howdy folks, For those who missed the word "penultimate" in my post a few days ago, this afternoon (MOnday 5-25-09) will be my last-ever dragonfly walk at Bentsen-RGV State Park, after leading them every week for three and a half years. So y'all feel free to join me, it's your last chance! This year's Dragonfly Days was quite possibly the best yet! From the already reported Leptobasis vacillans Friday morning, through the continuing Mexican Scarlet-tails and Arch-tipped Gliders at Bentsen, to a Blue-spotted Comet just before noon today, the species list was not the longest imaginable (though was longer than last year's) but was packed with amazing subtropical specialties. The talks were great too; John Abbott's keynote lecture pretty well blew us all away, especially the sneak peeks at his upcoming field guide and some new features coming soon to Odonata Central... Anyway, many thanks to Jennifer Owen-White and Martin Hagne for pulling the whole thing together; to John Abbott, Bob Behrstock, Ro Wauer, Greg Lasley, and Martin Reid for entertaining and informative talks; and to them plus Tom Langscheid, John Yochum and Kyle O'Haver for all of their work on the field trips. Am definitely hoping that circumstances conspire to bring me back again next year, though will be half a continent away rather than half an hour's drive! I'm not sure I have all of the days and locations correct or complete, but here's the list as reported at the daily countdowns, and as many specifics as I know: 1. Blue-spotted Comet (Anax concolor) seen and photographed Sunday near C deck at Resaca de la Palma State Park; first county record, maybe 6th US! 2. Common Green Darner (A. junius) at Estero Llano Grande SP among other places 3. Blue-faced Darner (Coryphaeshna adnexa) off Torres Road west of Brownsville on Saturday (Martin Reid got an unbelievable in-flight photo), and at Resaca DLP SP Sunday 4. Bar-sided Darner (Gynacantha mexicana) Ro & Betty Wauer had this one Sunday at Santa Ana NWR, there may have been other sightings 5. Broad-striped Forceptail (Aphylla angustifolia) 6. Narrow-striped Forceptail (A. protracta) both days off Torres Rd 7. Eastern Ringtail (Erpetogomphus designatus) 8. Sulphur-tipped Clubtail (Gomphus militaris) multiple locations including Torres Rd 9. Ringed Forceptail (Phyllocycla breviphylla) 10. Five-striped Leaftail (Phyllogomphoides albrighti) Torres Rd Saturday 11. Russet-tipped Clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) (I am pretty sure I had a Macromia at Torres Rd Sunday PM but not 100% certain, no one else saw it) 12. Prince Baskettail (Epitheca princeps) 13. Red-tailed Pennant (Brachymesia furcata) 14. Four-spotted Pennant (B. gravida) 15. Tawny Pennant (B. herbida) - off C deck at Resaca 16. Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina) 17. Black Setwing (Dythemis nigrescens) 18. Pin-tailed Pondhawk (Erythemis plebeja) 19. Eastern Pondhawk (E. simplicicollis) 20. Great Pondhawk (E. vesiculosa) 21. Band-winged Dragonlet (Erythrodiplax umbrata) 22. Metallic Pennant (Idiataphe cubensis) at Santa Ana NWR for Friday's pre-fest trip 23. Needham's Skimmer (Libellula needhami) Martin Reid showed me a few at Bentsen on Thursday 24. Marl Pennant (Macrodiplax balteata) at Llano Grande Saturday PM 25. Hyacinth Glider (Miathyria marcella) - many off Torres Rd 26. Spot-tailed Dasher (Micrathyria aequalis) 27. Thornbush Dasher (M. hageni) 28. Carmine Skimmer (Orthemis discolor) - at Frontera Audubon Saturday AM, among others 29. Roseate Skimmer (O. ferruginea) 30. Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) 31. Wandering Glider (Pantala flavescens) - Sunday AM at Resaca 32. Spot-winged Glider (P. hymenea) 33. Slough Amberwing (Perithemis domitia) at VNC & off Torres Rd 34. Eastern Amberwing (P. tenera) 35. Mexican Scarlet-tail (Planiplax sanguiniventris) at Bentsen 36. Arch-tipped Glider (Tauriphila argo) at Bentsen 37. Striped Saddlebags (Tramea calverti) 38. Black Saddlebags (T. lacerata) 39. Red Saddlebags (T. onusta) 40. Smoky Rubyspot (Haeterina titia) 41. Plateau Spreadwing (Lestes alacer) 42. Rainpool Spreadwing (L. forficula) 43. Chalky Spreadwing (L. sigma) 44. Blue-striped Spreadwing (L. tenuatus) - at Santa Ana NWR on Friday 45. Coral-fronted Threadtail (Neoneura aaroni) - at Bentsen, on irrigation canal, Sunday 46. Amelia's Threadtail (N. amelia) 47. Blue-fronted Dancer (Argia apicalis) 48. Kiowa Dancer (A. immunda) at Frontera Audubon among others 49. Powdered Dancer (A. moesta) Sunday only, not sure where 50. Golden-winged Dancer (A. rhoadsi) 51. Blue-ringed Dancer (A. sedulaa 52. Dusky Dancer (A. translata) 52. Familiar Bluet (Enallagma civile) 53. Neotropical Bluet (E. novahispaniae) - Bentsen irrigation canal 54. Orange Bluet (E. signatum) 55. Citrine Forktail (Ischnura hastata) 56. Rambur's Forktail (I. ramburii) 57. Desert Firetail (Telebasis salva) 58. Caribbean Yellowface (Neoerythromma cultelatu 59. Cream-tipped Swamp-damsel (Leptobasis melinogaster) - possibly 20+ at Santa Ana NWR on Saturday morning 60. Leptobasis vacillans, no common name in English, in same area as melinogaster 39 dragons, and 21 damsels, 60 species total over the three days of field trips. Not too shabby at all, and with the two species of Leptobasis at Santa Ana, the rare darners near Brownsville, and the rare skimmers at Bentsen, the quality was off the charts! Have fun, Josh Cheers, Josh Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D. Natural Resource Specialist World Birding Center at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park http://www.worldbirdingcenter.org/sites/mission/index.phtml Joshua.Rose AT tpwd.state.tx.us (956) 584-9156 Extension 236 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Trip Reports: Kerr/Real Cos. 24 May 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 03:31:40 +0000 Was able to get out for a little while today at both Rio Vista Crossing in Kerr County (seeking Comanche Dancers, which were not found, and may not be flying yet), and Big Springs Ranch in Real County, where i found a new ranch species and had several other good things. It was my missing Dragonfly Days consolation prize i guess . . . Decent finds at Rio Vista included one Neotropical Bluet (Enallagma novaehispaniae) and a handful of Stream Bluets (Enallagma exsulans). At Big Springs i was accompanied by Zac Loman and Jill Wussow from Humboldt State University, part of the Texas A&M Golden-cheeked Warbler Survey team, and we had some good birds as well as the odes, including a couple of male Golden-cheeked Warblers in song late in the afternoon, and three or four Black-capped Vireos in an area where they've found several pairs nesting. Of the bugs we had our best stuff at a deep dammed pond above a side canyon pouroff. This is the location where i had the first Real County, and first Hill Country, record of Slough Amberwing (Perithemis domitia) last year, and today we had at least three there, plus two Eastern Amberwings (Perithemis tenera), and on the river below the pouroff under a bluff overhang we had a teneral fly up just out of reach and good view, but that i suspect was another Slough. Also working the overhanging shrubbery were a half-dozen Orange-striped Threadtails (Protoneura cara) which are new for the ranch, although i've been expecting them there. We also saw what was probably two (and caught one) Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus). We had a large array of dancers as has been usual here, although we did not look for Coppery Dancer, and encountered no sylphs today, although we were only casually in Jade-striped territory and not at all in Ivory-striped territory. Some photos at: http://milkriver.blogspot.com/2009/05/env-kerr-reael-cos-24-may-2009.html TX: Real County, Big Springs Ranch, off US83, 7 miles N of Leakey, 24 May 2009 1 Spicebush Swallowtail 12 Pipevine Swallowtail 15 Sleepy Orange 1 Lyside Sulphur 1 Reakirt's Blue 2 Red Admiral 1 Dun Skipper 20 Desert Firetail 6 Orange-striped Threadtail (new to Ranch) 100 Double-striped Bluet 20 American Rubyspot (photos) 8 Dusky Dancer 1 Springwater Dancer 1 odd dancer sp. (voucher) 40 Aztec Dancer 30 Blue-ringed Dancer 1 Powdered Dancer 30 Kiowa Dancer 4 Violet Dancer 2 Dragonhunter (photos) 1 Pale-faced Clubskimmer 6 Flame Skimmer (photos) 4 Widow Skimmer 5 Common Whitetail 8 Comanche Skimmer 4 Eastern Pondhawk 2 Swift Setewing 3 Slough Amberwing 2 Eastern Amberwing 1 Amberwing sp. (likely Slough) TX: Kerr Co., Rio Vista Crossing on the Guadalupe River, of TX39, 1 mile W of Ingram 24 May 2009 200 American Rubyspot 4 Smoky Rubyspot (photos) 1 Neotropical Bluet (photos) 3 Stream Bluet (photos) 6 Kiowa Dancer 10 Blue-ringed Dancer 60 Powdered Dancer 2 Dusky Dancer 1 Prince Baskettail tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012 _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: some pix from last 2 weeks From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 11:24:59 -0500 My trip to swamps near Cleaveland, Liberty County, Texas http://www.thehibbitts.net/troy/photo/odonata/9_May_2009.htm And My Rocket Run to the LRGV, Hidalgo County, Texas http://www.thehibbitts.net/troy/photo/odonata/16_May_2009.htm Troy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: correction or original post on Leptobasis vacillans From: "Greg Lasley" <glasley AT earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 02:30:09 -0000 Hello All, Minor correction to my original post on the vacillans. We did not photograph a female...only young males were photographed. Hopefully in the days or weeks ahead someone will get shots of a female. Specimens were not collected since permits were not available for the N.W.R. at this time, so at present this is only a photo record, but believed to be a correct ID to species. Greg Lasley Subject: Photos of Leptobasis vacillans (NEW U.S. RECORD) have been posted From: "david_t_dauphin" <dauphins AT sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:29:49 -0000 Greg Lasley asked that I post his initial photos of Leptobasis vacillans; a NEW U.S. Record that was found by John Abbott (and seen and photographed by many folks) at Santa Ana NWR in Alamo, Hidalgo Co., TX this morning. On a personal note, thanks so much to John, Greg, and Martin Reid for staying with this beautiful damsel until we could get over to see it. Greg's photos may be viewed at http://www.thedauphins.net/rgv_newest_photos.html , or in my "Newest Photos 5/22/09" album via my webpage. Congrats John and all, Jan Dauphin Mission http://www.thedauphins.net Subject: new U.S. odonate record in the valley - Leptobasis vacillans From: "Greg Lasley" <glasley AT earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 19:33:12 -0000 Hello All, This morning at about 11 A.M., John Abbott, Kendra Bauer, and I were at the front pond at Santa Ana N.W.R. where Bob Behrstock, Martin Reid and others had recently found numbers of Cream-tipped Swamp Damsels (Leptobasis melinogaster). We found several of this species and photographed both males and females. John called Kendra's and my attention to an interesting orange colored damselfly that he was trying to identify and we started getting photos of it. John thought this could be a new U.S. species but we were not certain what it was. Bob Behrstock, Martin Reid and others arrived with a field trip from the Dragonfly Days festival and between John, Bob and Martin decided that Leptobasis vacillans was the most likely identification. We lost sight of the original damsel, but Martin found a 2nd one, and later we found a 3rd one. All were more or less teneral and recently emerged. There is no accepted (by the DSA names committee) common name as yet for this tropical species. Later examination of images shows that we photographed both male and female. Dennis Paulson has looked at the images and agreed with the ID as Leptobasis vacillans. I do not have a way to post images to my website while on the road, but Jan Dauphin will post a few of my shots as well as some of her shots and make a note to TexOdes in a while with a link to the location where the images can be seen. Greg Lasley Austn, Texas currently at the Dragonfly Days festival in south Texas Subject: More Odes Abound on the Texas Southern High Plains From: "dragonflywatcher1029" <dragonflywatcher1029 AT yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:19:04 -0000 This past week I made several trips to the Llano Estacado Audubon Society Trail with hopes of capturing a few more Epitheca petechialis. No luck, but I did see the first Flame Skimmers, a teneral male Sulphur-tipped Clubtail, and another new record for Lubbock County: the Argia fumipennis violacea. I corresponded via email with Tech professor, Dr. Nancy McIntyre, who informed me that she a a prospective student saw and collected one earlier on Friday 15 May. Jerry K. Hatfield Subject: Trip Report: Kerr County 21 May 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 03:11:46 +0000 Spent some time at two of our ponds this afternoon, and still found numbers way low from what i would expect, but diversity not bad . . . list and some pics below Also, Troy Hibbits wrote today and provided a link to Odonata Central pics he took of Red-tailed Pennants in Real County last year . . . those (not my sighting from Sunday) thus represent the first county record for Real Co., AND of course they are documented . . . thanks Troy! TX: Kerr Co., Hill Country Youth Ranch, 1 miles N of Ingram, Winston and Chapel Ponds, 21 May 2009 some pics here: http://milkriver.blogspot.com/2009/05/env-kerr-county-21-may-2009.html 6 Desert Firetail (photo) 20 Double-striped Bluet (photo) 1 Violet Dancer (photo) 1 Kiowa Dancer 4 Citrine Forktail 1 Prince Baskettail 1 Sulphur-tipped Clubtail (photo) 1 Red-tailed Pennant 12 Banded Pennant (photo) 8 Eastern Pondhawk 2m Widow Skimmer 1m Common Whitetail 2 Swift Setwing 2 Blue Dasher (photo) 12 Red Saddlebags 1 Black Saddlebags 2 Dun Skipper 1 Lyside Sulphur 1 Southern Dogface 1 Arizona Sister tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has a new way to see what's up with your friends. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/WhatsNew?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_WhatsNew1_052009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Bentsen S.P. observations May 20 fide Martin Reid From: "Greg Lasley" <glasley AT earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 01:32:03 -0000 Hello All, Martin Reid just called me from the valley and asked me to make a post to TexOdes regarding some odonates at Bentsen State Park this afternoon. Mexican Scarlet-tail (Planiplax sanguiniventris) - This was a new U.S. species last summer. Several have been seen the past week or so at Bentsen. Martin reports ca. 6 individuals today at the resaca at Bentsen. They have been seen at or near the boat ramp as well as at other spots along the resaca where fishermen have broken down areas of cane so that they can access the water for fishing. The Planiplax have been perching on cane or sticks out over the water at these various cuts through the vegetation. Metallic Pennant (Idiataphe cubensis) - This species was new to Texas last summer and was seen during June, 2008. Today Martin saw ca. 3 or 4 individuals in the area of the resaca at Bentsen.Also these have been seen at the above described cuts through the vegetation. Arch-tipped Glider (Tauriphila argo) - Again, new for Texas (and the U.S.) last year. This species has been seen off and on this past week or so. Martin had several this afternoon, again at the resaca at Bentsen, and again in or near the above described cuts. Hope to see many of you at the Dragonfly Days festival starting tomorrow afternoon. Greg Lasley Austin Subject: Kerr County 20 May 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 21:54:52 +0000 an indication of how swamped i've been this spring is that there are five dynamite ponds on the place where i live and work, one of them visible from my office, and i have yet this year to even glance at them . . . today though i made a point of walking the edge of one on my way from my office to the library and saw a handful of things, though the pond was very quiet compared to past years . . . part of this may be due to the fact that until about a month ago this pond was down about 4 feet in level, three of the other ponds were completely dry, and the last one had only some puddles left . . . recent rains have put water back in all of them, and this one pond is now only about a foot shy of being *full* . . . the creek that empties it still is not flowing though . . . TX: Kerr Co., Hill Country Youth Ranch, off Texas 27, 1 mile N of Ingram, Office Pond 1 Checkered Setwing 1 Banded Pennant 1 Black Saddlebags 3 Red Saddlebags tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film guadalupe stage quartet hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Trip Report: Real County 19 May 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 21:50:16 +0000 i gave a program last night at Laity Lodge, which is the property on the other branch of the Frio River headwaters, just north of the fenceline from our Big Springs Ranch. . . i arrived about 30 minutes early and used that time to look for a few odes . . . this location, despite looking perfect for many odes in both diversity and abundance, has never been very rich on my jaunts there, nevertheless i found a few things, photographed a few as well . . . the Red-tailed Pennant was constantly just out of net reach and never sat for a photo in my short time there . . . photos of the others will be posted on my blog later tonight . . . 19 May 2009, TX: Real Co., Laity Lodge, HEB Foundation Camp, headwaters of the Frio River, marsh at Laity Creek Junction with Frio River 1 Great Spreadwing 6 Kiowa Dancer (photo) 30 Springwater Dancer (photo) 1 Citrine Forktail 4 Dot-winged Baskettail 4 Prince Baskettail (photo x2)2 Comanche Skimmer 2 Pale-faced Clubskimmer (photo) 1 Red-tailed Pennant [new report for county, needs to be documented] 2 Sleepy Orange 1 Vesta Crescent 1 Reakirt’s Blue 1 Dun Skipper tony gallucci ingram/kerrville, texasmilk river film hurricanetg AT hotmail.com http://milkriver.blogspot.com http://sevenbullsboy.deviantArt.comhttp://YouTube.com/milkriverfilm http://bugguide.net/user/view/4012Facebook, Myspace, Twitter _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Bentsen odonata 5-18-09: Red-faced, Golden-winged, and Scarlet-tailed! From: "Joshua Rose" <joshua.rose AT tpwd.state.tx.us> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:53:45 -0500 Howdy folks, Javier de Leon and Tom Pendleton joined me for my penultimate weekly Bentsen dragonfly walk yesterday, and made it a great one! Before the walk even started, Tom Pendleton found a Red-faced Dragonlet, maybe 2 or 3, on the pond in the HQ garden! One stuck around for the walk and I digiscoped a couple of photos. Tom thought he had seen a female as well but we could not relocate it. As we were relocating the dragonlet, Javier spotted a Rainpool Spreadwing. After tallying a few more species there, we were about to leave for the irrigation canal when a Golden-winged Dancer appeared! Between the pond and the canal, we saw every LRGV Argia species but one, missing only Kiowa, which after being common every week all winter has vanished from the park this spring. We proceeded to the boat ramp, and from there walked to other locations from which we could view the edge of the water of the resaca, La Parida Banco. For the second week in a row, we struck out on the Arch-tipped Glider, but found the Mexican Scarlet-tail. This week he even stuck around for some digiscoped photos. Curiously, not a single darner species observed. After photographing two crepuscular species here on Thursday and Friday, would have expected something diurnal around too... Did manage three clubtail species though, the time this year I've seen more than one. Noted one Spot-winged Glider (Pantala hymenea) in the garden over the weekend; otherwise the swarms that had been around a few days ago have been nowhere in sight since the cool front hit. The list for our walk: Smoky Rubyspot (Haeteria titia) - males on the canal and in the garden Rainpool Spreadwing (Lestes forficula) - male on the pond Amelia's Threadtail (Neoneura Amelia) - 5+ males on the canal Blue-fronted Dancer (Argia apicalis) - males in several locations Powdered Dancer (A. moesta) - 1 male on the canal Golden-winged Dancer (A. rhoadsi) - 1 male on the pond Blue-ringed Dancer (A. sedula) - a few males on the canal Dusky Dancer (A. translata) - 1 male on the canal Familiar Bluet (Enallagma civile) - several males on the pond Double-striped Bluet (E. basidens) - a few males on the canal Rambur's Forktail (Ischnura ramburii) - several males, 1 female, 1 pair on the Resaca Citrine Forktail (I. hastata) - 1 male lurking in the pond Caribbean Yellowface (Neoerythromma cultellatum) - 10+ males on the Resaca plus two more on the canal Desert Firetail (Telebasis salva) - a few males and pairs on the HQ pond Russet-tipped Clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) - Tom photographed one near the canal before the walk Narrow-striped Forceptail (Aphylla protracta) - one male on the resaca Five-striped Leaftail (Phyllogomphoides albrighti) - one male on the canal Red-tailed Pennant (Brachymesia furcata) - a few males on the resaca Four-spotted Pennant (B. gravida) - a few males on the resaca Black Setwing (Dythemis nigrescens) - a few males everywhere we looked Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis) - males and females, pond and resaca Great Pondhawk (E. vesiculosa) - one on the pond Band-winged Dragonlet (Erythrodiplax umbrata) - 2+ males on the pond RED-FACED DRAGONLET (E. fusca) - 1-3 males, maybe a female on the pond Spot-tailed Dasher (Micrathyria aequalis) - several males along the resaca and a couple on the pond Roseate Skimmer (O. ferruginea) - a couple at the pond Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) - lots on the Resaca and pond Eastern Amberwing (Perithemis tenera) - 2-3 males on the Resaca MEXICAN SCARLET-TAIL (Planiplax sanguiniventris) - a male on the Resaca Red Saddlebags (T. onusta) - pairs on the pond and resaca 14 damsel species, 13 dragons. I think that's the first walk this year to crack 30 species! And six families again; lost the baskettail from last week, gained a spreadwing in its place. Have fun, Josh Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D. Natural Resource Specialist World Birding Center at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park http://www.worldbirdingcenter.org/sites/mission/index.phtml Joshua.Rose AT tpwd.state.tx.us (956) 584-9156 Extension 236 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: East Texas Trip From: "Terry Hibbitts" <thibb AT swtexas.net> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:53:10 -0500 I recently returned from a four day trip into southeast Texas looking for odes. I did find two that were important finds, I think. One Duckweed Firetail and one Furtive Forktail at a series of beaver ponds located across the road, about 200 yards from Greg Lasley's Bar-winged Skimmer site, southwest of Sam Rayburn Lake dam. After spending awhile at the Bar-winged Skimmer site, I talked to a couple who spend a lot of time riding horses throughout the forest. They asked if I had been to the beaver ponds. When they told me where they were, I realized that they were near the Bar-winged site. Anyway, I spent the next morning looking around that area. It really looks good. The site is easily found on Google Earth. Beaver Pond Habitat: Http://www.thehibbitts.net/images/Beaverpond.TX.Jasper.09.2491m.jpg Duckweed Firetail Http://www.thehibbitts.net/images/T.byersi.TX.Jasper.09.4496m.jpg Furtive Forktail Http://www.thehibbitts.net/images/I.prognata.TX.Jasper.09.4458m.jpg My trip: Stopped by Independence Park, Gonzales, Gonzales County on 11 May. Blue-fronted Dancer Powdered Dancer Blue-ringed Dancer Cobra Clubtail Double Lake Rec. Area, San Jacinto NF, San Jacinto County on 12 May. (until 2:00pm) Turquoise Bluet Slender Bluet (Mostly these this time) Rambur's Forktail Fragile Forktail Citrine Forktail Blue-fronted Dancer Gray Petaltail (they find you) Swamp Darner Comet Darner Common Green Darner Ashy Clubtail Prince Baskettail Common Whitetail Slaty Skimmer Eastern Amberwing Calico Pennant Eastern Pondhawk Little Blue Dragonlet Blue Dasher Big Creek Scenic Area, San Jacinto NF, San Jacinto County on 12 May. (brief stop at 3:00pm) Ebony Jewelwing Blue-tipped Dancer Great Blue Skimmer Road Side Park pond 4 mi W of Woodville on US 190, Tyler County, (4:00 - 5:00pm) Ebony Jewelwing Attenuated Bluet Burgundy Bluet Rambur's Forktail Fragile Forktail Citrine Forktail Southern Sprite Variable Dancer Eastern Amberwing Boykin Springs Rec. Area, Angelina NF, Jasper County (base camp) Late on 12th and left early on the 14th) *Creek #ponds at upper end of lake Ebony Jewelwing* Swamp Spreadwing# Attenuated Bluet# Fragile Forktail# Citrine Forktail# Powdered Dancer* Gray Petaltail* Swamp Darner Common Sanddragon* Yellow-sided Skimmer Bar-winged Skimmer# Slaty Skimmer# Eastern Pondhawk Little Blue Dragonlet# Blue Dasher Hyacinth Glider Carolina Saddlebags Bar-winged Skimmer Pond, Jasper County 13th (12:00 - 1:30pm) Fragile Forktail Citrine Forktail Painted Skimmer Bar-winged Skimmer Slaty Skimmer Golden-winged Skimmer Eastern Pondhawk Little Blue Dragonlet Blue Dasher Horse Camp Pond near Boykin Springs Rec. Area, Angelina NF, Jasper County 13th May (3:00 - 5:30pm) Spent time talking to couple about sites in the forest Fragile Forktail Citrine Forktail Southern Sprite Gray Petaltail (another one found me) Goldern-winged Skimmer Calico Pennant Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Hyacinth Glider Beaver Ponds near Bar-winged Skimmer Pond, SW of Dam, Jasper County, 14th May ( 10:00 - 12:30pm) Swamp Spreadwing Attenuated Bluet Turquoise Bluet Burgundy Bluet Furtive Forktail Fragile Forktail Citrine Forktail Duckweed Firetail Southern Sprite Swamp Darner Painted Skimmer Bar-winged Skimmer Slaty Skimmer Golden-winged Skimmer Eastern Amberwing Ornate Pennant Calico Pennant Eastern Pondhawk Little Blue Dragonlet Blue Dasher Carolina Saddlebags On the way home I stopped by the Roadside park again on US 190 near Woodville Added Slaty Skimmer Great Blue Skimmer Stubblefield Lake Rec. Area, Sam Houston NF, Walker County. (4:00 - 5:00pm) Fragile Forktail Citrine Forktail Jade Clubtail Prince Baskettail Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher I spent the night at my son's house, Toby (not Troy) in Millican, Brazos County, 15th May at pond near his house Prince Baskettail Eastern Amberwing Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Red Saddlebags Widow Skimmer Slaty Skimmer Roseate Skimmer Stillwater Clubtail Terry Hibbitts Camp Wood, TX www.thehibbitts.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: TRIP REPORT: Real County, 17 May 2009 From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg AT hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 05:41:31 +0000 Checked out odes and other bugs etc at our Big Springs Ranch in Real County on Sunday May 17th. Bugs were improving, though still way way down . . . had a single Coppery Dancer and a single teneral Jade-striped Sylph . . . complete list below pictures of many of these are posted at: http://milkriver.blogspot.com/2009/05/env-real-co-big-springs-ranch-17-may.html click on the picture for large versions . . . 6 Desert Firetail [PHOTO] 20 Double-striped Bluet [PHOTO] 6 Springwater Dancer [PHOTO] 20 Dusky Dancer [PHOTO] 12 Aztec Dancer [PHOTO] 16 Blue-ringed Dancer [PHOTO] 1 Coppery Dancer 3 Prince Baskettail [PHOTO 1 heavily marked, 1 lightly marked] 1 Pale-faced Clubskimmer 1m Common Whitetail [PHOTO unpruinosed m] 1m Widow Skimmer 1m Red Rock Skimmer 1 Flame Skimmer 4 Comanche Skimmer [PHOTO m&f] 3 Swift Setwing [PHOTO] 1 Eastern Pondhawk [PHOTO] 1 Jade-striped Sylph (teneral) [PHOTO] 4 Pipevine Swallowtail 1 Giant Swallowtail 1 Southern Dogface 1 Large Orange Sulphur 30 Sleepy Orange 1 Reakirt’s Blue 1 Cassius Blue (new to Ranch, New County Record) 1 Little Wood Satyr 3 Gulf Fritillary 1 Arizona Sister 1 Dun Skipper _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TexOdes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:TexOdes-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:TexOdes-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TexOdes-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: South Texas "Rocket Run" 5/16 From: "Troy, Marla, & Cheyenne Hibbitts" <alterna2627 AT swtexas.net> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 09:48:14 -0500 Inspired by Martin's post, I made a quick dash Friday night down to Bentsen. Arrived at Bentsen around 7:30 - stayed until 2:00. Afterwards, went over to Santa Ana for 2 hours before the rains started coming in, then headed home. My lists: Bentsen: Smoky Rubyspot - a few in canal and at WBC Golden-winged Dancer - a few at Resaca Blue-fronted Dancer - a few seen, both at Resaca and WBC Dusky Dancer - 1 seen at Resaca Rambur's Forktail - many seen along Resaca Caribbean Yellowface - several seen near boat ramp at Resaca Desert Firetail - a few seen at WBC Narrow-striped Forceptail - 1 seen near boat ramp at Resaca Flag-tailed Spinyleg - 1 seen along roads in center of park Sulfur-tipped Clubtail - 2 seen near Resaca Prince Baskettail - many seen flying over Resaca, 1 hung up for photos Red-tailed Pennant - many seen near Resaca Four-spot Pennant - " Halloween Pennat - a pair in wheel at boat ramp Eastern Pondhawk - many seen throughout park Great Pondhawk - many seen throughout park, most common ode on roads away from water Blue Dasher - many seen at Resaca Thornbush Dasher - many seen, mostly at WBC Spot-tailed Dasher - many seen at water's edge at Resaca Mexican Scarlet-tail - 1 seen near boat ramp Eastern Amberwing - several seen near boat ramp Black Setwing - many seen at Resaca and WBC Checkered Setwing - several seen near boat ramp Band-winged Dragonlet - several seen at WBC Roseate Skimmer - several at WBC Needham's Skimmer - several at Resaca Striped Saddlebags - several at Resaca, many at Hawk Tower Red Saddlebags - several at Hawk Tower Santa Ana NWR (really windy with limited sun as storms approached) Blue-striped Spreadwing - 2 at Willow Lake Chalky Spreadwing - dozen or so at Willow Lake - only 1 mature male Blue-ringed Dancer - 1 at Canal behind Visitor Center Citrine Forktail - 1 at small wooded wetland between Willow & Pintail Lakes Familiar Bluet - 1 at Canal behind Visitor Center Great Pondhawk - many seen throughout area Eastern Pondhawk - many seen throughout area Band-winged Dragonlet - several seen throughout area Roseate Skimmer - many seen throughout area Four-spot Pennant - many seen, particularly around Pintail Lake Red-tailed Pennant - many seen, particularly around Pintail Lake Blue Dasher - many seen throughout area Thornbush Dasher - 1 seen at Willow Lake Striped Saddlebags - many seen, particularly at Pintail Lake [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]