DSA Update No. 4 – Preliminary Trip List

Once again we slogged through bogs, waded into crystalline rivers and enjoyed the company of colleagues in the great pursuit of dragonflies. The Dragonfly Society of the Americas wrapped up its annual meeting in Orono, Maine, Sunday night. Some of us are heading north to Jackman (in the rain) for a post-meeting field trip that could include rare boreal species, such as Coenagrion interrogatum (Subarctic Bluet) and Somatochlora brevecincta (Quebec Emerald). That damselfly above is a Calopteryx aequabilis (River Jewelwing), a constant companion throughout this meeting. Highlights from Sunday included Mike Blust netting two Ophiogomphus howei (Pygmy Snaketail) from the Machias River and Hal White getting a female Somatochlora incurvata (Incurvate Emerald) from a small spruce bog. After our meeting and cookout Saturday, a few folks nabbed Neurocordulia yamaskanensis (Stygian Shadowdragon) from Pushaw Stream. During this meeting, many of us also got looks at black bear and moose. For a few more images and our preliminary species list

Here are some images. I’ve included a species list below.

Here’s our PRELIMINARY species list (92 species). It now includes reports from the pre-meeting field trip in and around Fryeburg and the post-meeting trip in and around Jackman.