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To contact us: |
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Phone: 712-364-3300 |
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202 Jasper Avenue Ida Grove, IA 51445 |
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What’s New ?
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Steve Hummel, the Naturalist for Ida County, has recently received two grants to do research on dragonflies and damselflies (insect order odonata). He has worked with odonata for over 40 years. He has been a member of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas for 14 years and becomes the societies President in July during their annual meeting in Fort Collins, CO.
One grant from the Iowa DNR is to document the presence and distribution of a rare, recently discovered dragonfly known as the Sioux Snaketail (Ophiogomphus smithi) in northeastern Iowa. This species was described and named in 2004 and only known from northeast Iowa and west-central Wisconsin. In Iowa, just 4 specimens from 4 locations in Buchanan, Black Hawk, and Benton counties have been found. A survey for the species will be conducted in several counties in the northeastern part of the state. Most of the work for this project will be done in June.
The second grant is from the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks to survey the distributions of species of damselflies and dragonflies throughout the state of South Dakota. This project was started with a small grant from Prairie Biotic Research of Ames, IA, in 2010. The grant from GF&P will extend the project through the summer of 2012. |