Also colorful, pest-eating, non-threatening to humans, and still surprisingly unstudied.

Among all the strange and unusual things that have been learned about Dragonflies, there is one that stands out above everything else, says Kathy Biggs:  their mating practices.

  Kathy Biggs is a local birder and nationally prominent expert on dragonflies and the author of Common Dragonflies of California: A Beginner's Pocket Guide, as well as other field guides and a dragonfly coloring book for children. She will co-present Messengers of Summer: Sonoma County’s Dazzling Dragonflies with Kevin Munroe,  Executive Director of the Laguna Foundation, at the Foundation's Heron Hall Environmental Center, on Saturday, June 25, 9:-3:30. Further details can be found here. See her checklist of the 58 species known to visit Sonoma County here.

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