I loved the book, which made me think of countless walks with Wendy, my wife, at the Morton Arboretum and elsewhere, and the delight we have taken in these creatures.

Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History is an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. If I post poems on my blog, they count as published for the purposes of most journals’ editorial policies, so don’t send me anything you are hoping to publish in an edited journal . On a hot August day I joined him at a meadow in Harriman State Park, about an hour north of New York City.I also work within a school as a SEN teaching assistant and this book I shall be sharing with the families that need it as I feel that a child in whichever level of learning they are at this is very accessible for their understanding. I reckon today the state of knowledge is about where birds were in the Civil War,” says Nick Donnelly, a renowned expert and cofounder of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas, who lives in Binghamton, New York. Hunt has records dating back to the 1800s, since prominent entomologists of the day, such as Samuel Scudder and Philip Calvert, did field work in the White Mountains. There are more than 450 bird species in New York, versus 50 to 60 species of dragonflies in any one area” depending on the county, Federman says. For instance, the subarctic darner, a three-inch-long dragonfly with a yellow face and blue or green stripes on its hefty, dark-brown midsection, was observed at only two sites, one during the survey, one just after.

Crosby conveys a sense of wonder and urgency in both monitoring and protecting the habitat of the odes.With dark spots at the base of the wings and black-and-white shoulder stripes, we pegged it as a female chalk-fronted corporal—the first species on my list. How does anyone go about determining the top ten americana artists ever, and once you’ve worked that one out, how do you rank them in a meaningful way?

Created with versatility in mind, each die offers so many creative opportunities in your craft projects. Thank you Nanny and Grumpy for this gorgeous book, and thank you Kelly Owen for giving families a child-friendly, positive book about a situation that is so horrific. Blue eyes, yellow-blue stripes on the thorax, and no coloration on the tip of the abdomen: It was a slender spreadwing. Another pioneer, lifelong Cape Codder Blair Nikula, became fascinated with dragonflies through photography. Chasing Dragonflies’ was co-produced by Mark Donohoe and ARIA winner, Bill Chambers, and features a star-studded line-up such as National banjo champion, Ian Simpson, and Grammy award winner, Lucky Oceans.Chasing Dragonflies is so beautifully written that it satisfied my ecologist mind and naturalist heart . Biography: Cindy Crosby is the author of The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction (Northwestern University Press, 2017).

The guide, published in 2002, “was limited to around 100 species, which made it manageable,” says Nikula.When the beast, seemingly resigned to my holding its wings, curled its long abdomen, I noted the spiny hairs on its legs.