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Resources

Range Maps for and Information about North American Odonata

OdonataCentral – All North American distribution data can be accessed here, with specific pages for Minnesota data, and access to the county lists.

Field Guides

Damselflies of the North Woods by Bob DuBois
Contact Bob at: rbdubois@gmail.com

Dragonflies of the North Woods by Kurt Mead 
http://www.dragonfliesofthenorthwoods.com/

Damselflies of the Northeast by Ed Lam 
http://homepage.mac.com/edlam/book.html

Stokes Beginner's Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies by Blair Nikula and Jackie Sones, with Donald and Lillian Stokes 
http://odenews.org/stokesguide.htm

Other Print References for Identification

Dragonflies Through Binoculars, A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America by Sidney W. Dunkle

Dragonflies of North America by James G. Needham, Minter J. Westfall, Jr., & Michael L. May

Damselflies of North America by Minter J. Westfall, Jr., and Michael L. May, (revised by Mike May)

The Odonata of Canada and Alaska - Vols. 1 and 2 by Edmund M. Walker

The Odonata of Canada and Alaska – Vol. 3 by Edmund M. Walker and Philip S. Corbet

Published Reports

A survey of the Odonates of Minnesota’s eastern rivers completed in 1997 by John Haarstad: Download PDF

Status Survey for Special Concern and Endangered Dragonflies of Minnesota: Population Status, Inventory and Monitoring Recommendations, 1999, Wayne Steffens and William Smith.: Download PDF

Status Survey for Ophiogomphus anomalus Harvey, and early-season dragonfly inventory of western Superior National Forest Rivers, 2001, Wayne Steffens.: Download PDF

Supplies

IORI store – envelopes  http://www.iodonata.net/
BioQuip – envelopes, nets, etc  http://www.bioquip.com/default.asp

Curriculum

The MN DNR has this dragonfly-based language arts curriculum for use by intermediate to high school students: Download PDF

Relevant Odonata Web Sites

Wisconson Odonata Survey  http://inventory.wiatri.net/Odonata/Survey.cfm

Iowa Odonata Survey  http://www.iowaodes.com/

Michigan Odonata Survey  http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/MICHODO/MOS.html

Ontario Odonata  http://www.netcore.ca/~prairie/odonata.html

Manitoba Dragonfly Survey  http://www.naturenorth.com/dragonfly/index.html

World Dragonfly Association  http://powell.colgate.edu/wda/

Dragonfly Society of the Americas  http://odonatacentral.bfl.utexas.edu/dsa1/default.htm

International Odonata Research Institute  http://www.iodonata.net/ (includes many additional links and references)