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Can someone please ID this Ode for me , thanks


Fred

Hi Fred-

I believe it to be an andromorph female Rhionaeschna multicolor. Incidentally, it would certainly help (when requesting an id) if you were add your state or province of residence to your profile.

Thanks Roger for the ID and the incidental. My Bad


Fred

Vancouver Island BC

Thanks, Fred. I now rest easier through knowing that you reside in Western North America, as opposed to Eastern North America, which would have precluded the likelihood of Rhionaeschna multicolor being the correct id. :-)

Hey Fred nice photo of a really cool bug.

Roger...I saw a dragonfly on the Madison last week that looked like a small helicopter! I unfortunately didn't get a pic, but wow, can those things get big! I had, clumsily, just entered the river and spooked a two-footer from out behind a large boulder...I said to myself, "What a way to start a morning of fishing Spence! You klutz!"

Spence

Hi Spence-

Yeah, we've got some adult dragonfly species in the PNW that have a body length of well over 3 inches. Man, those are big suckers. :-)

"...I saw a dragonfly on the Madison last week..."

Uh-oh, sounds like we have a fishing report (or 5) coming from Spence. Expect Troutnut to be flooded with an accumulation of "fish porn", scenery, and perhaps a few photos of a gourmet meal or two... ;oD

BTW, that is just a beautiful dragonfly. I have actually been seeing guidebooks to dragonfly watching with binoculars, with particularly distinctive species illustrated in nice color photos...bird watching for the fly-fishing crowd!

Jonathon

Had a weird one today....I'm in Cooke City Montana and was sitting on a bench in front of a store my wife was shopping in bullshitting with a local old-timer about grizzlies (more about my face-to-face with one when I get home).

There were flowers in front and a large hummingbird/moth ? flew up and started hitting the flowers for nectar. It was huge! At first I thought hummingbird, but now I'm leaning towards some sore of "hummingbird moth"...

Itt seemed unaffected by us and I think of hummingbirds as skittish around folk. I could almost see wing beats and it looked really weird...

Roger! Do you guys out this way grow everything big?! :)

My 2nd grizz of the trip was spotted as we drove through the park at 4:00/5:00am in the dark...Well there was a full moon. It is one strange trip to drive through Yellowstone in the dark...We had to be in Gardiner at 7:00 to float the Yellowstone with Walter Wiese. He crossed rather quickly and disappeared in to the woods.

Driving the Beartooth Hwy tomorrow...We got lucky. They just reopened it this afternoon as we drove in to town...Closed a couple days due to a large fire...Fires were popping up everywhere out here over the last few days.

Spence

No, Spence. You must be thinking of Texas. :-)