3 Responses to “Insect of the week – number 102”

1. Margaret Donald says:

   4 January 2012 at 6:48 pm

   I know it would lengthen the entry, but I am always curious as to the idiosyncratic reasons for the choice of insect of the week….
2. Andrew Ernst says:

   6 January 2012 at 2:02 pm

   Thanks for the comment Margaret!

   I’m not sure how the other authors go about choosing the species the decide to highlight, but often it is something that I have come across that catches my eye. For this insect of the week, I noticed that we hadn’t done any odonates recently, so I went to our collection and found these spectacular damselflies that I had occasionally seen flying around small streams when I am collecting. After spending a little time looking up literature I decided it would be an interesting choice.
3. Margaret Donald says:

   7 January 2012 at 5:06 pm

   Lovely insect. And thanks for the reply.