This Blue Dasher male was in the horticultural garden at Shasta College. The garden has a small pond which probably contributed to the many odes we found there.
Stillwater Creek - Part 2, Shasta County, 7/12/06
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This Blue Dasher male was in the horticultural garden at Shasta College. The garden has a small pond which probably contributed to the many odes we found there. |
 Female Western Pondhawk eating a male Sooty Dancer. |
 Male Gray Sanddragon. There were many of these along the creek. |
 Male Gray Sanddragon, pretty well camouflaged. |
 Gray Sanddragons in wheel. |
 Gray Sanddragons in wheel. This is a different photograph than the one above, turned on edge to reveal more detail. Note the exuviae (stone fly?) on the stick. |
 Female Brown Spotted Bush-cricket (Tesselata tesselata; formerly Platycleis tesselata), a katydid native to Southern Europe which has been introduced to California -- my thanks to Richard Vernier and bugguide.net for the ID. |
| © 2006 Ray Bruun |