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Informationen zum Autor Forrest L. Mitchell Research entomologist Forrest Mitchell has been fascinated with insects since childhood. This has translated into a career in entomology with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas A&M University. Although the main direction of the research program is oriented toward sustainable mitigation of insect-transmitted plant diseases! there is always plenty of time for dragonflies. Forrest lives in Stephenville! Texas.James L. LasswellJames Lasswell is the director of field research for the Entomology Department of the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station in Stephenville! Texas. An avid outdoorsman! he became interested in dragonflies while a graduate student at Texas A&M University. He began photographing dragonflies! and other creatures of nature in 1994. He is an invited speaker or tour guide at a number of educational! civic! and naturalists meetings and festivals each year! where he shares his fascination with dragonflies and other aquatic life with the general public. James lives in Stephenville! Texas. Klappentext Learn about: - Dragonfly Tales - The Prehistory of Dragonflies - Dragonfly Lives - The Natural History of Dragonflies - Watching Dragonflies - Collecting Dragonflies - Water Gardening for Dragonflies - Picturing Dragonflies - Colloquial Names of Dragonflies - The Dragonfly Society of the Americas Collecting Statement - Monitoring Dragonfly Migration Zusammenfassung Pioneers in the electronic imaging of insects and creators of the website Digital Dragonflies! the authors share their spectacular scans of live dragonflies! enhanced with photographs that showcase them in their natural environment. With tips on creating a dragonfly garden to instructions for catching! photographing! and scanning them.
