From ericgibert at asia-dragonfly.net Sun Aug 1 03:01:00 2010 From: ericgibert at asia-dragonfly.net (ericgibert at asia-dragonfly.net) Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:01:00 -0000 Subject: [Community] Auto-generated message from Dragonfly.net Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ericgibert at yahoo.fr Mon Aug 9 07:12:36 2010 From: ericgibert at yahoo.fr (Eric Gibert) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:12:36 +0800 Subject: [Community] A photographic guide to the Dragonflies of Singapore Message-ID: <858B0CE785C4498EA0FC62DFE8746DBB@Gecko> Dear all, Last week at the National University of Singapore, a small ceremony was held to launch officially the newly published ?A photographic guide to the Dragonflies of Singapore? by Tang Hung Bun, Wang Luan Keng, Matti H?m?l?inen. Peter Ng, Director of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research of NUS (right most on photo) and Prof Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources (second right), unveiled a copy in presence of Tang Hung Bun (second left) (note: unfortunate even have prevented Luan Keng to be present). Of course, I was present too (left most) and quite happy to see the final result of this 3 years project! A photographic guide to the Dragonflies of Singapore Tang Hung Bun, Wang Luan Keng, Matti H?m?l?inen. A total of 124 species are recorded with the territorial limits of Singapore, including seven new records just in the last two years. Informative textual accounts of all species and large, full-colour photographs of almost every species enable the reader to identify any dragonfly encountered in the field. This book is an essential tool to enthusiasts, naturalists and general readers who wish to learn about dragonflies. At the same tome, it captures quintessentially their sublime and ephemeral beauty. The book is available for order at Nature's Niche bookstore: http://www.naturesniche.com/en/naturesbooks/books/singapore_titles/0/1/97898 10861551/ Eric Gibert Dragonfly.net Webmaster Asia, Africa , America , Neotropic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 5717 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 20100802_NUS_LT31_Book_Launch.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 160191 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ericgibert at asia-dragonfly.net Sun Aug 15 03:00:51 2010 From: ericgibert at asia-dragonfly.net (ericgibert at asia-dragonfly.net) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:00:51 -0000 Subject: [Community] Auto-generated message from Dragonfly.net Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ericgibert at yahoo.fr Sun Aug 15 03:05:23 2010 From: ericgibert at yahoo.fr (Eric Gibert) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:05:23 +0800 Subject: [Community] about parasitic mites Message-ID: Dear all, I have taken the photos sent by Ulrich and created quickly the following page: http://www.asia-dragonfly.net/Articles/parasits.php There is a video showing the attack on a damselfly by an unidentified insect. while Ulrich noticed a large number of dragonflies were suffering parasitism from mites. Could they be related? Any insight or information on parasitic mites and their impact on dragonfly are welcome! If you can identify the aggressor, that would be great. Take you magnifier, Sherlock! The crime is still unsolved. Eric Gibert Dragonfly.net Webmaster Asia, Africa , America , Neotropic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bernhard_renaud at bluewin.ch Tue Aug 17 10:56:03 2010 From: bernhard_renaud at bluewin.ch (bernhard_renaud at bluewin.ch) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:56:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Community] about parasitic mites In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <22884666.151931282064163588.JavaMail.webmail@ps11zhb.bluewin.ch> Hello, >From what I read about it those mites are acarians living in or close to the water. They 'climb' onto the dragonfly when it emerges from the larvae state. Wether the purpose is to get a free ride to new places or to feed on the dragonfly haemolymph I don't know Regards Renaud ----Message d'origine---- De: ericgibert at yahoo.fr Date: 15.08.2010 11:05 ?: Objet: [Community] about parasitic mites Dear all, I have taken the photos sent by Ulrich and created quickly the following page: http://www.asia-dragonfly.net/Articles/parasits.php There is a video showing the attack on a damselfly by an unidentified insect. while Ulrich noticed a large number of dragonflies were suffering parasitism from mites. Could they be related? Any insight or information on parasitic mites and their impact on dragonfly are welcome! If you can identify the aggressor, that would be great. Take you magnifier, Sherlock! The crime is still unsolved. Eric Gibert Dragonfly.net Webmaster Asia, Africa , America , Neotropic _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community at host298.hostmonster.com http://host298.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/community_asia-dragonfly.net From memutic at yahoo.com Tue Aug 17 11:39:26 2010 From: memutic at yahoo.com (Arlo Pelegrin) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Community] about parasitic mites In-Reply-To: <22884666.151931282064163588.JavaMail.webmail@ps11zhb.bluewin.ch> Message-ID: <12060.15319.qm@web35906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> >From a similar forum: "These are larvae of the water mite genus Arrenurus (family Arrenuridae). Adults of aquatic Diptera are the most common hosts for water mite larvae, but some Arrenurus have switched to using odonates. These will engorge, then drop off back into the water, where they will continue the typical parasitengone life cycle, alternating inactive protonymph, active predatory deutonymph, inactive tritonymph, and active swimming adult." ? Associated with this picture: http://bugguide.net/node/view/84930 ? ? ? ? --- On Tue, 8/17/10, bernhard_renaud at bluewin.ch wrote: From: bernhard_renaud at bluewin.ch Subject: Re: [Community] about parasitic mites To: Community at asia-dragonfly.net Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 9:56 AM Hello, >From what I read about it those mites are acarians living in or close to the water. They 'climb' onto the dragonfly when it emerges from the larvae state. Wether the purpose is to get a free ride to new places or to feed on the dragonfly haemolymph I don't know Regards Renaud ----Message d'origine---- De: ericgibert at yahoo.fr Date: 15.08.2010 11:05 ?: Objet: [Community] about parasitic mites Dear all, I have taken the photos sent by Ulrich and created quickly the following page: http://www.asia-dragonfly.net/Articles/parasits.php There is a video showing the attack on a damselfly by an unidentified insect. while Ulrich noticed a large number of dragonflies were suffering parasitism from mites. Could they be related? Any insight or information on parasitic mites and their impact on dragonfly are welcome! If you can identify the aggressor, that would be great. Take you magnifier, Sherlock! The crime is still unsolved. 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