Speaker Series: Kathy Biggs and Sandra von Arb

Summer is here, the birds are nesting, but you’re anxious to be out in Nature, finding creatures. Dragonflies are the perfect solution! They are active in the warm summer sunshine and you have already developed the skills necessary for making identifications. Santa Clara County has 54 of California’s 114 species of Odonates.

There’s the Cardinal Meadowhawk, Flame Skimmer, Blue Dasher, Western Pondhawk, Common Whitetail and more. They come in all the colors of the rainbow and have interesting and unique and quite advanced anatomy and biology, especially when you consider that they have been on the planet since before the dinosaurs!

Join us for an exploration of the Bay Areas dragonflies with noted authors Kathy Biggs and Sandra von Arb as they discuss the Dragonflies found it the Bay Area. They will present their newest work, a completely revised edition of the seminal work, Dragonflies of California.