NATURE
MONCTON NATURE NEWS
Oct 8,
2022 (Saturday)
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**A very short edition
today but a quite significant bit of information for folks with dragonfly-damselfly
interests.
**A group of Nature
Moncton members and friends will be sleuthing the trails of Mapleton Acadian
Forest today and expect there will be lots of photographs taken of Mother
Nature’s community in this area which hopefully will be ready for publication
tomorrow as there will be no publication of Nature News on Monday, October
10.
**Gilles Belliveau points out a labelling correction
on a dragonfly photo in yesterday’s October 7 edition and gives excellent
comments as to why so we all can learn from it.
The photo
labelled Canada Darner dragonfly is actually a Variable Darner dragonfly.
Gilles
notes with appropriate arrows that Canada Darners do not have a bold black line
across the face like the one in yesterday’s photo (see attached photo with
arrow pointing to what Gilles is referring to on the photo, including the original
photo and a cropped version).
On a Canada
Darner, you would just basically see the “seam” across the face which has no
colour or just a slight grayish tone. (Gilles includes a photo of a Canada
Darner to compare the face and this is about as dark as the line across the
face would get on a Canada Darner)
Also, the
stripes on the side of the thorax are wrong for Canada Darner.
Based on
the thorax stripes, Gilles would say this is a Variable Darner which is one of the species that does have a black
line through the face.
Nelson
Poirier
Nature
Moncton
