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Hello, Last Friday afternoon, I took a quick walk around Belchers Marsh, a local wetland located on Parkland Drive in Clayton Park West. I was focussed on new flowering plants and odonates. There were a lot of damsels and dragonflies about, including one species which I had never seen previously (and thought that I'd never see!). These included: - White Corporal (Libellula exusta) - Four-spotted Skimmer (L. quadrimaculata) - Hudsonian Whiteface (Leucorrhinia hudsonica) - Elfin Skimmer (Nannothemis bella)!!! The latter species has to be seen to be believed!! I didn't carry my field guide with me but its diminutive size is distinctive. I only really noticed the female of the species due to its bee-like appearance but I'm pretty sure that there were some males around. In the field, I guesstimated the size to be ~2 cm which is fairly close to that given in the field guide. According to my Mass. field guide, the Elfin Skimmer is the smallest dragonfly in North America! All of the damsels seen on Friday were larger than this species!! Fascinating..... Cheers, Bob McDonald bobathome@eastlink.ca Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.12.93/2206 - Release Date: 06/27/09 17:55:00
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