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Mark's Odonata Blog: Twelve-spotted Skimmer
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Not uncommon in our area (Montreal and south) but fairly local. A very good place to to see this special insect is from the boarwalk at I'le Bizzard. They are such distinctive insects that they are noticed by even the environmentally challenged i.e 99% of the population. Twelve-spots fly June to August. The top two photos are males, the bottom three females. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Stuff I like and my Blogs. Lets get out of the water!
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Mark's Odonata Blog: Eastern Pondhawk
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Thursday, November 5, 2009. A great looking insect where both sexes are quite stunning in their own way. A common species in Southern Quebec and easy to find on well vegetated ponds. Flies late June to early September. The blue ones are males, green females. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Stuff I like and my Blogs. Lets get out of the water! A few from Europe.
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Mark's Odonata Blog: Ebony Jewelwing
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Found along brisk little streams with a gravel or rocky bottom, weed strands and plenty of bankside vegetation. These pretty little half damsel half dragonflies are usually seen bouncing along on blobby looking wings, the males looking for females to date, or other males to give a good kicking to. We should get River Jewelwing too locally although I have yet to find one. A June to August species and probably like most calopteryx species, tolerant of some level of pollution.
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Mark's Odonata Blog: Calico Pennant
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009. Calico Pennants fly June through to August. The first two images are of females, the last four males. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Stuff I like and my Blogs. Lets get out of the water! A few from Europe.
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Mark's Odonata Blog: November 2009
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Monday, November 23, 2009. A few from Europe. Just for fun here are a few species from Europe, all scanned slides hence the quality. No comment re distribution or flight period etc. Captions don't seem to want to go in so, the species are. Monday, November 16, 2009. Lets get out of the water! The following sequence of images show this event taking place, sort of. The species is. The final image shows another species. Saturday, November 14, 2009. Regal Darner top, Halloween Pennant Bottom.
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Mark's Odonata Blog: Lets get out of the water!
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Monday, November 16, 2009. Lets get out of the water! The following sequence of images show this event taking place, sort of. The species is. Or Common Darter and I took the photos over a few hours one morning back in England. I presume the insects in North America do exactly the same although perhaps those just over the border do a lot of clapping and cheering about it. The final image shows another species. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Stuff I like and my Blogs.
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Mark's Odonata Blog: Shadow Darner
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Saturday, November 14, 2009. More dodginess I'm afraid. Flies July to October. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Stuff I like and my Blogs. Lets get out of the water! A few from Europe.
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Mark's Odonata Blog: October 2009
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Saturday, October 31, 2009. Welcome to my first post of Dragonfly and Damselfly photographs taken mostly around Quebec, a few are from Ontario and still a few more from further afield. If you visit the blog and find errors (quite likely) please let me know at DennisM@videotron.ca. Now back to the insects. Dragonflies spend most of their lives as larvae devouring things smaller than themselves in the water, then they climb out and become, in most cases, inspirational. And so on we go.
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Mark's Odonata Blog: Eastern Amberwing
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Not photographed in Quebec but just down the road in Boston. There is probably no real reason why this smart little species should not occur in Quebec so something ot look out for. This is a female, the males have a beautiful amber suffusion to the wing, hence the name. They fly, according one dragonfly book, in the summer, no really! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Stuff I like and my Blogs. Lets get out of the water! A few from Europe.
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Mark's Odonata Blog: Four-spotted Skimmer
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009. A pretty common species found in just about any vegetated water habitat. Very easy to identiify thanks to the four spots on the wings, two front, two back on each side which is what their Scientific name of quadri (four) maculata (spots) means. In Europe this species is known as Four-spotted Chaser with the same Scientific name. Enjoy this insect from May to late August. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Stuff I like and my Blogs. A few from Europe.
