The Banded Demoiselles of Utrecht city

General
  • text and photos by Sybe Visser. Most photos have been used for an exhibition in a local environmental center in Utrecht city.
  • Except when noted differently, all photos have been taken in June and July 2006 at the Zwartewater Canal in Utrecht.
  • For the text, sometimes research results have been used which is done on a related species.
  • Photos are hosted on www.flickr.com. More photos from this population are shown here (2006) and here (2007).
  • Webpage optimized for 1024 x 768 and tested in recent versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer.
  • Thanks to the inhabitants of the Zwartewater Canal for their kindness and to Weia Reinboud for critically reading the Dutch version of this page.
  • Thanks to Stichting Ecologisch Advies for the allowance to use their map of the Banded Demoiselle in Utrecht.
  • Thanks to the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Libellenstudie / de Vlinderstichting / EIS-Nederland for the population map of the Banded Demoiselle in the Netherlands.
Links

Banded Demoiselle Dragonflies, general
Species of the month, June 2007
The Dutch VOFF (Vereniging Onderzoek Flora en Fauna) has created a nature calendar for 2007 with each month a different "species of the month" The Banded Demoiselle is species of the month for June 2007.

For more see www.soortvandemaand.nl.

Research