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Communication between members of the Lancashire local group of the British Dragonfly Society.
The aims of the group are to arrange dragonfly field meetings, and encourage dragonfly recording.
Members of the group are encouraged to join the BDS itself, but are not required to do so.
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Possible trip to Sweden in August, to see north European species
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Allen Holmes and I are thinking of visiting Sweden in August to see species
such as Azure Hawkers, Baltic Hawker, Green Hawker and Bog
Hawkers, Brilliant Emerald, Yellow-spotted and Northern Emeralds, and
others. It will be a guided tour by [link].
Cost for guiding would be about £150/day for the party as a whole. So price... more »
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Emergence starting in Hurst Grange Park
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Female tenerals were emerging from Long Bob in Hurst Grange Park today. I
saw none yesterday, nor on Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.
You can see the record by logging onto Living Record. For those of you who
have not used Living Record before, point your web browser at
[link] and apply to Join. When you get your email... more »
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No April sightings for me
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For the first year since I started looking in 2006, I've not seen any Large
Red Damselflies in April.
I suppose it was to be expected.
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No armchair genus tick for Lancashire (yet)
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Those of you with a copy of Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain ead
Europe Dijkstra & Lewington 2006 who have read it front-to-back, may have
noticed the possibility of Sympetrum fonscolombii (Red-veined Darter) being
re-classified into genus Tarnetrum.
I have just been reading a paper published last year that did a genetic and... more »
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late sighting
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I had a male Common Darter flying at Devil's Hole, Ravenmeols dunes yesterday (5th November). I think this is the latest I have ever recorded.
Phil.
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BDS members day
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Anyone planning to go to members day this year, seeing as it's in Chester?
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My website address has changed
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If any of you have my website (Dragonflies on DragonflyBSD)
bookmarked, please note it's URL has changed. Edit any of your
bookmarks to replace:
colina.demon.co.uk
with
odonatoptera.no-ip.org
Or just delete the bookmark and create a new one pointing at:
[link]... more »
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Prospective interest
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Dear All,
It wasn't just the dispiriting weather than made this year so memorable, it was the difficulties of doing any sort of planning with those set in and long periods of wet gloom.
I would certainly be interested in field meetings with others.
I am more tentative about organizing one. The sites I know include Hic Bibi, Healey Nab, Cuerden Valley Park,the Ainsdale NNR slacks (not visited this year), Roudsea and Gait Barrows. Only HN, Cuerden and ANNR guarantee reasonable numbers of common species.... more »
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Common Hawkers at Brockholes (?)
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I see in the blog that on the 19th: Common Hawker (frequent). I've
never seen Common Hawker at Brockholes, and it doesn't appear
elsewhere on the blog. Were these positively identified (by yellow
costa, or long ante-humeral stripes, for instance), or just assumed by
jizz?
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