Tag Archives: Common Green Darner

The Wheel, a Hopper, a Borer, and a Carpet Beetle

By Greg Dodge, Ranger | Published: April 30, 2009

Dragonfly and damselfly species are picking up. Seen this period were (dates next to names indicate day in which that species was first observed this season) Fragile Forktail, Citrine Forktail (4/18), Orange Bluet (4/27), Skimming Bluet (4/28), Common Green Darner, Swamp Darner, Common Baskettail, Eastern Pondhawk (4/25), Blue Corporal (4/25), Blue Dasher (4/27), Common Whitetail, [...]

Posted in Insects and Other Arthropods, Spring | Also tagged (Anthrenus verbasci), (Chalcophora virginiensis), (Schistocerca americana), American Bird Grasshoppers, American Lady, American Snout, Black Saddlebags, Blue Corporal, Blue Dasher, Citrine Forktail, Cloudless Sulphur, Common Baskettail, Common Whitetail, copulation wheel, Eastern Pondhawk, Fragile Forktail, Hummingbird Moth, Monarch, Mourning Cloak, Orange Bluet, Pearl Crescent, Powdered Dancer, Questionmark, Red-banded Hairstreak, Red-spotted Purple, Skimming Bluet, Southern Cloudywing, Swamp Darner, Varied Carpet Beetle, Virginia Pine Borer | Leave a comment

Butterflies, Dragons, Tent Dwellers, a Forester, and a Tiger

By Greg Dodge, Ranger | Published: April 15, 2009

Fragile Forktails continue to emerge from the Wetlands (see Fragile Forktail, Explore the Wild Journal, March 16-31, 2009), although I’m now seeing females as well as males. Among the other odes observed during the first half of April were Common Green Darner, Swamp Darner, Common Baskettail, and Common Whitetail. Butterflies seen this period were Eastern [...]

Posted in Insects and Other Arthropods, Spring | Also tagged (Alypia octomaculata), (Cinindela sexgutata), and Juvenal’s Duskywing, April, Cabbage White, Common Baskettail, Common Whitetail, defoliating, dragonflies, Eastern Tent Caterpillar, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Eastern-tailed Blue, Eight-spotted Forester, Fragile Forktail, labrum, Mourning Cloak, Olive Hairstreak, Orange Sulphur, Silver-spotted Skipper, Six-spotted Tiger Beetle, Swamp Darner | Leave a comment

The First Dragons and Damsels, a few early Leps

By Greg Dodge, Ranger | Published: March 31, 2009

Finally, odes! That is, dragonflies and damselflies. The first Fragile Forktail that caught my attention this season was on March 18 when one individual was seen taking its first flight after emerging. This sighting is nine days later than the first sightings of this species last year, which occurred on the 9th of March. By [...]

Posted in Insects and Other Arthropods, Spring | Also tagged Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Falcate Orangetip, Fragile Forktail, Juvenals’ Duskywing, teneral | Leave a comment

Hardy Insects Hang On

By Greg Dodge, Ranger | Published: November 30, 2008

A lone Common Green Darner was seen early in the period and several Autumn Meadowhawks were out and about whenever the temps were able make it into the fifties. We may see meadowhawks lingering into December. One Sleepy Orange and one Common Buckeye were the only butterflies observed during the latter half of November.

Posted in Fall, Insects and Other Arthropods | Also tagged Autumn Meadowhawk, Common Buckeye, Sleepy Orange | Leave a comment

Late September Insects

By Greg Dodge, Ranger | Published: September 30, 2008

Despite a general decrease in dragonfly activity, several dragonflies are still being seen in small numbers including Common Green Darner, Black Saddlebags and Wandering Glider. All three of these dragonfly species are known to move with the seasons. With the winds out of the north, mostly northeast for a good part of the period, I’m [...]

Posted in Fall, Insects and Other Arthropods | Also tagged Autumn Meadowhawk, Black Saddlebags, Blue Dasher, Carolina Mantis, Cloudless Sulphur, Eastern-tailed Blue, Fiery Skipper, Gray Hairstreak, Hackberry Emperor, Monarch, Oncideres cingulata, Pearl Crescent, Photinus pyralis, Pigeon Horntail, Pine Sphinx, Red-banded Hairstreak, Red-headed Meadow Katydid, Red-humped Caterpillar, Sycamore Tussock Moth, Tremex columba, Twig Girdler, Two-lined Spittlebug, Viceroy, Wandering Glider | Leave a comment

Greg Dodge is a professional naturalist as well as a writer, videographer and producer of natural history DVDs. His images have been used in various TV productions, museum displays, and corporate videos. Above all, he has a fascination and passion for all things natural.
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