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Wildlife Reports => Toronto Wildlife => Topic started by: surfinbird on September 20, 2006, 10:44:51 AM

Title: Dragon Fly
Post by: surfinbird on September 20, 2006, 10:44:51 AM

Hi there
I saw a post on another site saying that dragon flys are migrating . Does anyone know if this would be correct , I never thought that they would migrate like butterflies .
surfinbird

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Post by: David Shilman on September 20, 2006, 03:30:20 PM

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1012_051012_dragonfly.html

Title: dragon flys
Post by: Craig McL on September 20, 2006, 04:56:27 PM

WOW that is so cool !!! :D I wood never have thought it was posaball to track them !!

 David thanks for posting that articall..

Craig

Title: dragon fly
Post by: surfinbird on September 21, 2006, 09:53:32 AM

Thank you for the info . A very interesting link .
surfinbird

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Post by: Brian Bailey on September 21, 2006, 11:38:25 PM

Here's another article from last month about dragonfly migration:  http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060812/bob8.asp (http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060812/bob8.asp)

And this page tells you which species are known migrants:  http://vertigo.hsrl.rutgers.edu/BOB/mig ... y_txt.html (http://vertigo.hsrl.rutgers.edu/BOB/migrant/may_txt.html)

There are several common Ontario species on the list, but the two I notice most as migrants are the Green Darner and Black Saddlebags.  I don't usually see either species in the city during the summer, but they both show up in the fall.  (Both species are fairly common in suitable habitat in southern Ontario.)

BB