Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History

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They prey on live insects in midair, snapping up small bugs with their mouths or grabbing larger ones with their legs, then perching to devour them. Drawing on her experiences as a natural history instructor, dragonfly monitor, cancer survivor, grandmother, and steward, Crosby tells the stories of dragonflies: their roles in poetry and art, their fascinating sex life – unique within the animal kingdom – and their evolution from dark-water dwellers to denizens of the air. Indeed, while surveyors spotted some of the damsels at new sites, the three threatened species were limited to Suffolk County. Cindy Crosby is the author of The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction (Northwestern University Press, 2017).

They’re known for perching on the ground and for the white stripe on the thorax,” he said, explaining his shortcut. When you pay attention, you prop the door of your soul ajar to welcome the unexpected and the uncontrolled. The sky was a dull heavy gray—poor conditions for spotting the sun-loving insects—and as we traipsed through a powerline cut, Cullen spied a dragonfly perched on a sandy patch of ground. There’s a number of tracks such as ‘ I’m Going Home’ and ‘ Always By My Side’ which illustrate the theme love (or love and loss in the case of the latter).

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Drawing on her experiences as a natural history instructor, dragonfly monitor, cancer survivor, grandmother, and steward, Crosby tells the stories of dragonflies: their roles in poetry and art, their fascinating sex life—unique within the animal kingdom—and their evolution from dark-water dwellers to denizens of the air. He’s added several new species to the global list of known odonates, including a dozen or so from Panama and, in 2012, several from Vietnam. If you keep on chasing that sparkle, glimmer of light, or shimmer from a fluttering, we might not always get exactly what we want, at least not first up, but we’re gonna get a whole lot closer than if we never tried at all. If you don't want to see βeta then select 'Always Hide βeta' and the comments will be hidden for you. After more than an hour and not much to show for it, Chadwick continued to patiently tromp through the grasses, sometimes entering the dappled shade under the trees, other times approaching a nearby stream.