Friends,
So what is going on in our own backyard that we haven't yet figured out?

John Fleckenstein

Message: 22
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:33:38 -0800
From: Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson at comcast.net>
Subject: [Tweeters] video about dragonflies
To: TWEETERS <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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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!]
>
>
http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_anderson_discovers_dragonflies_that_cro
ss_oceans.html
>
> "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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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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