THE KANSAS SCHOOL NATURALIST

ISSN:0022-877X

Published by EMPORIA STATEUNIVERSITY

Prepared and Issued by THE DIVISIONOF BIOLOGICALSCIENCES

Editor: JOHN RICHARD SCHROCK

Editorial Committee: DAVID EDDS, TOM EDDY,GAYLEN NEUFELD

Editors Emeritus: ROBERT BOLES, ROBERT F.CLARK

Circulation and Mailing: ROGER FERGUSON

Circulation (this issue): 8,000

Press Run:13,000

Compilation: JOHN DECKER

Printed by: ESU Printing Services

Online edition designed by: TERRI WEAST

The Kansas School Naturalist is sent free of charge and upon request to teachers, school administrators, public and school librarians, youth leaders, conservationists, and others interested in natural history and nature education. In-print back issues are sent free as long as supply lasts. Out-of-print back issues are sent for one dollar photocopy and postage/handling charge per issue. Aback issue list is sent free upon request. The Kansas School Naturalist is sent free by third class mail to all U.S. zipcodes, first class to Mexico and Canada, and surface mail overseas. Overseas subscribers who wish to receive it by airmail should remit US $5.00 per year (four issues) airmail and handling. The Kansas School Naturalist is edited and published by Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. Editor: John Richard Schrock, Division of Biological Sciences. Third class postage paid at Emporia, Kansas. Address all correspondence to Kansas School Naturalist, Division of Biological Sciences, Box 4050,Emporia State University, Emporia, KS66801-5087.Opinions and perspectives expressed are those of the author(s) and/or editor and do not reflect the official position or endorsement of ESU.

Current knowledge of Kansas Odonata is based largely on the extensive work of the Snow Entomological Museum and of the Kansas Biological Survey. Personnel of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Wichita Parks Department, Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, and the Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge kindly gave their permission to collect. Thanks to Ken Brunson, Nongame Coordinator with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks for underwriting some of the publication costs for this issue using Chickadee Checkoff funds. Thanks are also due to Dr. Sidney W. Dunkle of Collin Co. Community College, Plano, Texas for allowing the use of his extraordinary dragonfly photographs. Dr. Dunkle is preparing a field guide to the Odonata of North America, and has published a photographic guide to Florida dragonflies that contains photos of many of the species that occur in Kansas. Photos are acknowledged individually and were taken by Roy Beckemeyer or Sid Dunkle.

Cover Photo: No. S.AESHNIDAE: Anax junius, Common Green Darner. Pair in tandem with female ovipositing into vegetation. Note the wings which often become tattered late in the season. Photo by Roy Beckemeyer, Quivira NWR, Stafford Co., KS. Sept. 1996.

Publication and distribution of this issue was made possible by a grant from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.

Kansas School Naturalist is indexed in Wildlife Review/Fisheries Review; the text of this issue and of other KSNs is available at http://www.emporia.edu/ksn