ku # 777-78 ~ Odonata
Monday, July 19, 2010 at 09:31AM 
Odonate shed skin ~ Bog River / Low's Lake region - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Odonate shed skin ~ Bog River / Low's Lake region - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenAs coincidence would have it during our wilderness canoe trip, Hugo found the shed skin of a Hudson Whiteface dragonfly (Leucorrhinia hudsonia) on a tree trunk.
On that trip we had brought along the latest edition of Adirondack Magazine which, coincidentally, featured a cover picture of and an article about the Low' Lake / Bog River primitive/wilderness region in which we were paddling and camping. However, unbeknownst to us until we read it (after finding the shed skin), the magazine also had an article about the species of the order of Odonata - aka, dragonflies and damselfies - that are found in the Adirondacks. FYI, there are approximately 140 species of dragonflies / damselflies that call the Adirondacks home.
The unexpected coincidence stems from the fact that accompanying the article was a picture of the Hudson Whiteface dragonfly that Hugo had found - a picture that illustrated the shed skin of that very same species of dragonfly.
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