Dragonflies and damselflies
Good morning to everyone. We are pleased to inform you that the next Balearic Bird Report of the GOB will include among its contents a section dedicated to the odonates of the Balearic Islands, a group of insects composed by dragonflies and damselflies. It will gather the most interesting records for each species observed during the year 2019 on our islands: relevant specimen numbers, localities of interest, phenological data, mating or egg laying, behaviors, predation, etc.
For this section to have a significant data collection, the collaboration of the greatest number of people will be welcome. Therefore, we encourage you to send your observations to the email address
[email protected]. Photographs that can enrich the section or help with species identification are also accepted. Each observation or photo must be accompanied by the following information:
- Species (scientific name)
- Observers
- Date of observation
- Location of the observation (as accurate as possible, providing UTM coordinates if possible)
- Other data of interest (behaviors, reproduction, interactions with other species or groups...)
If someone has older observations or photographs of unidentified specimens, we invite you to share them too. The objective is to encourage more people to enter this fascinating and still little known group of invertebrates, so that the section takes shape and volume and that together we enrich the current knowledge.
On the other hand, and to guide you through the identification for future observations, we have available a list of the 24 Odonata species recorded in the Balearic Islands, appearing in a taxonomic order. This can be requested by contacting us by email.
We await your contributions, and remain at your disposal.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Team work of the ODONATA BALEAR section.
