Your Suggested Location for Seeing Dragonflies and Damselflies
We need you to help us equip the rest of the community for field trips.
One of the goals of this website is to help people get into the field and see dragonflies and damselflies. Towards that end, we would like every county page to have a ‘Places to Visit’ section that lists some publicly-accessible sites, providing enough information that people could make a useful decision on whether they want to visit, and they’d be able to find the place and would arrive with appropriate expectations.
We would like a mix of highly-accessible places that could be visited without the need for special gear, and more obscure places that require more effort to visit, but offer the opportunity to see unusual species or perhaps set a county record. Species rarity is a consideration, but remember that out-of-state or even out-of-county folks might be thrilled to see a Blue Dasher. Many hotspots have restrooms or Porta-Jons, but that isn’t necessary; just make note of facility details.
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Example Site Descriptions:
Coshocton Lake Park, located just north of the city, provides access to the Walhonding River, and over 20 acres of open water in the form of 3 ‘basins’ originally built for the Ohio and Erie Canal. 25 oda species have been observed.
A series of fish ponds below the Senacaville Dam. Surprisingly rich fauna of lentic odes with the occasional lentic species near the lake outlet flowing along/through the site. Easy walking on gravel driveways. Facilities available at state park sites across the road on the lake.
Brown’s Lake Bog is a small bog in Wayne County, Ohio. A Nature Conservancy site, Brown's Lake Bog Preserve/The Nature Conservancy (no collecting), it is open to the public and has a boardwalk path from the small parking area on Brown Road (Highway 316). The boardwalk ends with an overview of the central pond and allows close inspection of the bog flora and fauna including Sundews and Pitcher plants. Notable odes include Aurora Damsel (Chromagrion conditum) and Sphagnum Sprite (Nehalennia racilis). The site is adjacent to The Shreve Lake Wildlife Area with common species, the larger Kilbuck Marsh Wildlife Area and not far from the Mohican River and Mohican State Park. There are no restrooms at this site.
Creating iNaturalist Location URLs
See Using iNaturalist to Share Observation Locations for guidance on creating an iNaturalist location URL.