John Abbott of Texas has done a lot of updating on the Odonata Central web site. Especially cool is his photo gallery of odonata from South Africa from a trip he took earlier this year. Some species are fairly ordinary, but have great names like Pinhey's Whisp, Phantom Flutterer, and Jaunty Dropwing. Others are just wonderfully exotic-looking, such as the Dancing Jewel and the Pintail.
Other great tools John has added include a huge, searchable literature database, online versions of the Dragonfly Society of the America's two publications, the Argia and Bulletin of American Odonatology, and an archive of all the odonata listservs. I've added these links to my sidebar.
Be sure check out these fantastic resources.
21 March 2006
05 March 2006
British lepidoptera in trouble

Two disturbing reports have come out recently from across the pond.
Late last month, a report released by the U.K. organization Butterfly Conservation noted that the number of moths in Britain has declined substantially in the last 30-plus years, and that included 62 species which


The study focused on farmland species, since agricultural land covers three-quarters of Britain, and is essential to butterfly conservation there.
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