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AN EXCEPTIONALLY EARLY AND INFORMATIVE ARRIVAL OF ADULT ANAX JUNIUS IN ONTARIO (ODONATA: AESHNIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Terese Butler ,
Jane E. Peterson  and
Philip S. Corbet
Terese Butler
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Jane E. Peterson
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Philip S. Corbet
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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Abstract

Two mature male adults of Anax Junius were seen in Ontario exceptionally early in spring, before emergence had begun locally, and very soon after an episode of unseasonably warm weather which was associated with the arrival from Texas of a low-pressure system.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 107 , Issue 12 , December 1975 , pp. 1253 - 1254
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1975

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