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Order Odonata - Dragonflies and Damselflies

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Dragonflies (Natural World Series)
By Steve Brooks
Smithsonian Books/The Natural History Museum, London, 2003
Good life history information. Emphasizes European species.

Dragonflies: Behavior and Ecology of Odonata
By Philip S. Corbet
Comstock Pub Assoc, 1999
An expensive and exhaustive scientific work. Covers all aspects of odonate life history. Has excellent photographs of behavior.

Stokes Beginner's Guide to Dragonflies
By Donald and Lillian Stokes
Little, Brown and Company, 2002

The Blue Darners: dragonflies of the genus Aeshna in British Columbia
By Rob Cannings
Royal British Columbia Museum (online), 1996

Damselflies of North America
By Minter J., Jr Westfall, Michael L. May
Scientific Pub, 1996
A very scholarly work (common names are never mentioned at all). This is the bible for entomologists who work with damselflies. Some color plates and many highly detailed and magnified illustrations. Geographic coverage includes Canada, the United States, the northernmost Mexican states, and the Greater Antilles.

Damselflies of the Northeast
By Ed Lam
Biodiversity Books, 2004
A lovely little book, just under 100 pages. Covers all 69 species/forms of damselflies from the northeastern US (Virginia northward) and eastern Canada. It should be useful for all of the eastern US. Each species account is a full page and includes: life history, range map, flight dates, identification tips, detailed illustrations of both sexes, and smaller diagrams showing anatomic details. There is an introduction to damseflies with detailed diagrams explaining anatomic terms, and there are two pages of references. The book has superior typography and design.

Available directly from the publisher/author, $20 plus shipping:

Common Dragonflies and Damselflies of Eastern North America
By Richard K. Walton and Greg Dodge
Brownbag Productions, 2004
Stunning close-up videos of common dragonflies and damselflies. Video showing behavior and a variety of angles is a great supplement to a field guide. 50 widespread eastern species are covered in a one-hour DVD. Sequences show life cycle and habitats, so it is more than a field guide.

Coverage of North Carolina species is particularly good, since one of the authors is based there. The footage of damselflies is especially welcome, since there is no in-print field guide for the eastern US.

My only wish is for a booklet to accompany it, and subtitles. (There are explanatory notes included in the DVD.) My copy had one minor glitch that only showed up on one DVD player, but not on another. This was not a fatal flaw, only annoying. (I have seen similar problems on other commercial DVD's.)

Damselflies of Florida, Bermuda, and the Bahamas
By Sidney W. Dunkle
Scientific Publishers, 1991

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