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Help me use this blog to promote the watching of dragonflies in Nova Scotia, send me your sighting and I'll put them up here. If you see something you can't identify, photograph it and I'll try to ID it for you. Contact me at therealmarkdennis@gmail.com
Past lives
This used to be my old Quebec ode blog - I am now using it for NS odes but the QC stuff remains for those interested.
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The Nova Scotia Ode list
River Jewelwing.*
Ebony Jewelwing.*
Superb Jewelwing.
Spotted Spreadwing.
Northern Spreadwing.*
Southern Spreadwing.
Emerald Spreadwing.
Amber-winged Spreadwing.
Sweetflag Spreadwing.
Slender Spreadwing.
Lyre-tipped Spreadwing.*
Swamp Spreadwing.
Variable Dancer.*
Powdered Dancer.*
Aurora Damsel.*
Subarctic Bluet.
Taiga Bluet.
Sphagnum Sprite.*
Sedge Sprite.
Eastern Red Damsel.
Azure Bluet.*
Little Bluet.*
Boreal Bluet.
Tule Bluet.
Familiar Bluet.*
Vernal Bluet.
Northern Bluet.*
Marsh Bluet.*
Stream Bluet.*
Hagen’s Bluet.*
Orange Bluet.
Vesper Bluet.
Citrine Forktail.
Fragile Forktail.*
Eastern Forktail.*
Spatterdock Darner.
Canada Darner.*
Mottled Darner.
Lance-tipped Darner.
Lake Darner.*
Variable Darner.
Azure Darner.
Zigzag Darner.
Subarctic Darner.
Black-tipped Darner.
Shadow Darner.*
Green-striped Darner.
Green Darner.*
Cyrano Darner.
Springtime Darner.*
Ocellated Darner.
Fawn Darner.
Harlequin Darner.*
Black-shouldered Spinyleg.
Spine-crowned Clubtail.
Skillet Clubtail.
Moustached Clubtail.
Beaverpond Clubtail.
Harpoon Clubtail.
Lancet Clubtail.*
Dusky Clubtail.
Zebra Clubtail.
Northern Pygmy Clubtail.
Eastern Least Clubtail.
Dragonhunter.*
Extra-striped Snaketail.
Brook Snaketail.
Riffled Snaketail.
Maine Snaketail.
Rusty Snaketail.*
Twin-spotted Spiketail.*
Delta-spotted Spiketail.
American Emerald.
Petite Emerald.*
Racket-tailed Emerald.
Prince Baskettail.*
Beaverpond Baskettail.
Common Baskettail.
Spiny Baskettail.
Mantled Baskettail.*
Uhler’s Sundragon.
Broadtailed Shadowdragon.
Ringed Emerald.
Quebec Emerald.
Lake Emerald.
Ski-tipped Emerald.
Forcipate Emerald.
Delicate Emerald.
Incurvate Emerald.*
Kennedy’s Emerald.
Ocellated Emerald.
Muskeg Emerald.
Clamp-tipped Emerald.*
Brush-tipped Emerald .*
Williamson’s Emerald.
Ebony Boghunter.
Stream Cruiser.*
Swift River Cruiser.
Elfin Skimmer.
Calico Pennant.*
Martha’s Pennant.
Frosted Whiteface.
Crimson-ringed Whiteface.*
Hudsonian Whiteface.
Dot-tailed Whiteface.*
Canada Whiteface.
Belted Whiteface.*
Chalk-fronted Corporal.*
White Corporal.*
Slaty Skimmer.*
Widow Skimmer.
Common Whitetail.*
Twelve-spotted Skimmer.*
Four-spotted Skimmer.*
Seaside Dragonlet.*
Cherry-faced Meadowhawk.*
White-faced Meadowhawk.*
Ruby Meadowhawk.
Jane’s Meadowhawk.
Saffron-winged Meadowhawk.
Black Meadowhawk.
Band-winged Meadowhawk.
Autumn Meadowhawk.*
Variegated Meadowhawk.
Wandering Glider.*
Spot-winged Glider.*
Black Saddlebags.*
Blue Dasher.*
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Blogroll
- Cape Sable Island birding My CSI birding blog
- Gatineau Odeists. Odonata from the Gatineau, Quebec area (in French)
- Greg Lasley's Odonata site – excellent for reference. North American Odes
- My QC bird blog stuffed full of great stuff
Glossary
Here is a short glossary of some of the terms used in the blog posts, hopefully this will help any non-odeists who accidentally wander this way to understand things.
Ode = abbreviation of Odonata meaning all dragonflies and damselflies.
Dragonfly = a big one sort of.
Damselfly = a little one sort of.
Teneral = newly emerged flying insect.
Exuviae = the husk of the Larva.
Larva = the water-living insect before it emerges as a flying ode.
Head = the bit with the eyes!
Thorax = the bit the wings are bolted on to.
Abdomen = the long and generally colourful bit.
Genitalia = the fun parts used for ode dating!
Segment = a clearly defined section of the abdomen, numbered from the thorax back i.e. 1 to 9.
Paraprocts = the lower bits that stick out from the tail
end of the abdomen.Cersus = the upper bits that stick out from the tail end of the abdomen.
Claspers = joint term for both bits that stick out from the tail end of the abdomen.
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Ode posts
- Chalk and Cheese May 29, 2018
- Finally Emerged May 25, 2018
- Hopes and Odes for 2018 January 6, 2018
- High Water July 22, 2017
- Back to Quinn’s Falls Rd, Shelburne Co July 4, 2017
- Old Hay Road, Barrington June 14, 2017
- Mantled Baskettail June 12, 2017
- About Time! June 10, 2017
- Still Flying September 23, 2016
- Autumn Then September 15, 2016
- Winding Down September 8, 2016
- Local Emeralds August 23, 2016
- Drought August 10, 2016
- Black Saddlebags August 7, 2016
- Rusty Snaketail August 5, 2016
- Salty Ode August 4, 2016
- Two more for NS July 24, 2016
- Local Surprise #2 July 20, 2016
- Local Surprise #1 July 20, 2016
- Wentworth Lake Road, Shelburne Co July 17, 2016
- Clyde River Road Odes July 14, 2016
- Wilson Rd, Yarmouth Co July 4, 2016
- Spiketail July 1, 2016
- West Jeddore June 30, 2016
- Got my Little Bluet June 26, 2016
- Quinn’s Road, Clyde River – June 2016. June 22, 2016
- Slow start to 2016 June 19, 2016
- Sleeping November 16, 2014
- Recent wanderings July 18, 2014
- Stuttering start July 4, 2014
- Getting nearer March 27, 2014
- End of season November 15, 2013
- Odes and ends part three September 8, 2013
- Lucky September 3, 2013
- Odes and ends part deux. August 25, 2013
- Saddle up August 24, 2013
- Answer August 22, 2013
- Canada or Green-striped? August 22, 2013
- How lucky? August 20, 2013
- Not so elusive! August 16, 2013
- In the hand August 12, 2013
- Wandering stars August 7, 2013
- Darners August 6, 2013
- Meadowhawk update August 4, 2013
- A few odes and ends July 30, 2013
- More meadowhawks July 30, 2013
- And another one July 29, 2013
- Eastern Least Clubtail July 28, 2013
- Clubtail July 24, 2013
- River Bluet July 18, 2013
Old posts
Categories
Quick look at the pages
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- Adirondack visitor Center odonata
- Amber-winged Spreadwing in Quebec
- Autumn Meadowhawk
- Azure B;uet in Quebec
- Black Saddlebags in Quebec
- Blue Dasher in Quebec. Williamson's Emerald in Quebec.
- Blue Dassher in Quebec
- Bordelais Bog
- Brush-tipped Emerald in Quebec
- Comet Darner in Quebec
- Darners in Quebec
- Delta-spotted Spiketail in Quebec
- Eastern Amberwing in Quebec
- Eastern Amberwings
- Eastern Least Clubtail in Quebec
- Eastern Red Damsel in Quebec
- Fragile Forktail
- Green Darner
- Halloween Pennant in Quebec
- Harlequin Darner in Quebec
- Harpoon Clubtail in Quebec
- Lillypad Clubtail
- Maine dragonflies
- Maine Snaketail in Quebec
- Midland
- Midland Clubtail
- Nevada odonata
- Odeing in Nova Scotia
- Odonata at Murphy's Point
- Ontario
- Powdered Dancer in Quebec
- Quebec Odonata. Quebec Dragonflies. Quebec libulleles
- Rainbow Bluets in Quebec
- River Bluet in Quebec
- Scarlet Bluet in Maine
- Shadow Darner in Quebec
- Slaty Skimmer in Quebec
- Sphagnum Sprite in Quebec
- St-Lazare sand pits
- Stream Cruiser in Quebec
- Swamp Spreadwing in Quebec
- Variegated Meadowhawk in Quebec
- Zebra Clubtail in Franklin County NY
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Odes and ends part deux.
I tend to waft a camera around an awful lot and so end up with various bits and pieces that don’t fit into one of my carefully planned blog posts! So I’ll continue with odes and ends as a title … Continue reading
Saddle up
Back in late August 2010 I was taking lunch with my wife in her office in Senneville when I saw a Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata (Traméa Lacérée) patrolling the gap between her block and the next. I knew that they … Continue reading
Answer
Below is an explanatory image showing Canada and Green-striped Darner and briefly highlighting the differences. There is some good reference material on the subject on Northeast Odes Facebook page. The lower image is Green-striped. Hope this is useful (and correct!). Of … Continue reading
Canada or Green-striped?
After my recent darner netting session at Bordelais Bog, St-Lazare I thought I’d put together the results and offer a bit of a teaser. Seven faces, seven sides but only six are Canada Darner Aeshna canadensis (Aeschne du Canada), one … Continue reading
How lucky?
Yesterday I did a little detour on my way back from St-Lazare sand pits where the odeing was slow as the diversity of species dwindles. My detour, such as it was, sent me along a little track that is nominally … Continue reading
Not so elusive!
This evening a friend posted on Facebook that he’d had a Common Nighthawk fly over his house in Baie d’Urfé. ‘Needing’ it for the year in Quebéc, I went out into the garden to scan the skies as we get … Continue reading
In the hand
For me, the best photographs of dragonflies are the ones that show great detail and a natural setting, a setting giving a feel for their habitat preferences. A meadowhawk on the top of the dead flower; A darner camouflaged on … Continue reading
Wandering stars
Glancing at my notebook for 2012 I saw that, in the first week of August I was photographing Brush-tipped Emerald Somatochlora walshii (Cordulie de Walsh) at the west end of St-Lazare sand pits. With no firm plan in mind for … Continue reading
Darners
Wednesday July 31st Richard Yank came over to St-Lazare to enjoy the probably short-lived phenomenon of Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum (Sympétrum bagarreur) emerging. We were successful but quickly decided that no Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata (Traméa Lacérée) were flying and … Continue reading
Meadowhawk update
Just a quick update re Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum (Sympétrum bagarreur) at St-Lazare sand pits. three to five have been seen daily, usually between 09.30-12.00 in the same place. All were newly emerged tenerals. If you are interested in taking … Continue reading
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