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Travis County 22-23 November 2003

Posted to TexOdes 26 November 2003

On 22 November 2003, i accompanied Greg Lasley and John Abbott to Hornsby

Bend in search of late Odonates. While the place was not swimming in odes,

we did see quite a few, of 15 species. Certainly more were kept down by

winds gusting to 30+ mph. On 23 November, Greg, Mark Adams, and i tried to

venture to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to look at Leps and Odes,

but arrived just as the front did, immediately dropping the temps 15 degrees

into the fifties. We saw no odes there, and only a few leps, all "frozen" in

place wherever they happened to be when the front hit -- only a Sleepy

Orange and a Red Admiral were in flight. In the disappointment of the moment

we decided to make a run to Hornsby to see if any of literally hundreds of

metalmarks present there the day before were still around (they weren't) and

we managed to find only two Powdered Dancers (Argia moesta) both of them

easily caught by hand.

Here is Saturday's Hornsby list (* = documented):

4 Common Green Darner (Anax junius)

1 Blue-eyed Darner (Aeshna multicolor)

* 5 Eastern Ringtail (Erpetogomphus designatus) (probably documenting the

latest date ever for the family Gomphidae in Texas)

1 Gomphid sp.

3 Variegated Meadowhawk (Sympetrum corruptum)

4 Yellow-legged Meadowhawk (Sympetrum vicinum)

* 3 Red-tailed Pennant (Brachymesia furcata)

2 Wandering Glider (Pantala flavescens)

1 Black Setwing (Dythemis nigrescens)

1 Thornbush Dasher (Micrathyria hagenii)

2 American Rubyspot (Hetaerina americana)

80 Familiar Bluet (Enallagma civile)

* 2 Neotropical Bluet (Enallagma novaehispaniae)

400 Rambur's Forktail (Ischnura ramburii)

10 Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta)

tony gallucci

hunt, kerr county, texas