Seminar: Dragonflies and Damselflies
A program on another major group of flying critters: dragonflies and damselflies. Using locally taken images, this program will introduce participants to the local dragonflies and damselflies, the habitats where they can be found, tricks of the trade for finding them within those habitats, and observations about their adaptations for feeding, territoriality and more.
Bruce Lund is a botanist/biologist who has been birding, botanizing, and dabbling in other natural history areas in southern Nevada for more than a decade. Over that time, he found his binoculars increasingly straying from birds to another group of colorful flying critters, the dragonflies and damselflies. Actually, this is happening quite a bit among birders because this group of insects is a lot like birds in being active and colorful, flying and perching in full view during the day, and eminently viewable with binoculars. Bruce finally “caught the bug” and dedicated his full attention to learning and photographing this ancient lineage in southern Nevada.
Bruce will have his insect net, cameras, and other field tools, and bring his collection of field guides for participants to check over. And as a plus, Bruce will bring his own local field guide to the dragonflies and damselflies for the Muddy River area where he has done most of his field work. While the focus of the guide is for the northeast corner of the County, it will work very well in the Laughlin area.
Bruce is a volunteer with the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge, leading guided walks and creating seasonal bird, bat, butterfly, dragonfly and damselfly, and other interpretive posters. He leads bird trips in the Muddy River area for the Red Rock Audubon Society, and initiated the Muddy River Christmas Bird Count in 2000 and has been its leader since then. Past experience includes five years as a US Forest Service botanist in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, twelve years as a land steward for The Nature Conservancy in the Muddy River area, and in New York fourteen years as the Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary Director for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and a bunch of other stuff.
Seminar Date/Time: Saturday, March 13th, 10:30am-11:30am
