This will event will be both in-person and via zoom. Visit our website for the zoom link.

Learn about the beautiful, colorful and useful dragonflies, their unique biology and their role in our environment. Kathy & Sandra will introduce the most common of our 61 species of dragons that breed here.

Kathy Biggs has been a nature lover all her life and a birder since she bought her first home, but it was when she built her first wildlife pond that the dragonflies totally captured her and lead her into writing the first websites for California's dragonflies (https://bigsnest.powweb.com/southwestdragonflies/caphotos/), and then the first guide book, Dragonflies (Anisoptera) of California. She also has websites and books on the dragonflies of the greater southwest, and is now involved in a guide for Coastal Northwestern Mexico. Through her dragonfly studies she has helped with projects on preserving their habitats.

Sandra Hunt-von Arb has been a professional wildlife biologist focusing on sensitive and endangered species in northern California, southern Oregon, and northern Illinois for 30 years. She is a co-founder of Biodiversity Education and Research Foundation (BEAR Fdn) whose mission is to foster ecological stewardship through science and education. She discovered her passion for dragonflies surveying for the endangered Hine's Emerald Dragonfly in northern Illinois over 10 years ago. She brought that passion back to California and Kathy Biggs took her under her wing as a mentor which eventually led to co-authoring the guide book Dragonflies (Anisoptera) of California.