Subject: [Tweeters] video about dragonflies
Date: Jan 5 11:33:38 2010
From: Dennis Paulson - dennispaulson at comcast.net


It's one of the most spectacular dragonfly stories that have been told, and it also involves birds (although not PNW ones). The dragonfly involved, Wandering Glider, is a rare vagrant to the Pacific Northwest.

> Charles Anderson tells the magical story of how he discovered a humble little dragonfly with the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world. [Ed. note: there's nothing humble about Pantala flavescens!]
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> http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_anderson_discovers_dragonflies_that_cross_oceans.html
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> "What are millions of dragonflies doing, flying out over the ocean every year to their apparent doom? It doesn't make sense. There is nothing for them in Maldives. What on Earth are they doing?"

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