2002 Annual Meeting of The Dragonfly Society of the
Americas - Page 2Right: The coenagrionid Amphiagrion saucium (Eastern Red Damsel) was present at a number of places, including the delightful sphagnum bog at Dolly Sods Wilderness Area in the Monongahela National Forest. Here is the male. The female is below, left.
The trail in to the bog from the roadway at Dolly Sods was bounded by the lovely Kalmia latifolia, or Mountain Laurel, pictured above right.
Left
- Clark Shiffer walking along the edge of the bog at Dolly Sods. Clark
was searching for (and finding) the corduliid Somatochlora forcipata (Forcipate
Emerald), a
lovely green-eyed denizen of these neat mountain habitats. At the right is
a scanned image of a specimen that Clark caught and gave to me for my collection
(thanks, Clark!).
Another of the special insects at Dolly Sods was the cordulegastrid Codulegaster diastatops (Delta-spotted Spiketail). This male had been patrolling the narrow streamlet that traversed the bog.
The very pretty and very tiny Nehalennia irene (Sedge Sprite) has to be inspected in the hand with a magnifying glass to be appreciated. Here is a metallic-green and sky blue male in all his glory.
Left - Steve and Marcia Hummel on the trail to Dolly Sods. Steve and Marcia helped to organize the 1998 DSA meeting in Nebraska, and have attended all the meetings since then.
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