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Dragonflies breathe fire into hobby

By ALICE LUKENS

Baltimore Sun

Sunday, October 15, 2000

Bob and Joanne Solem used to be avid birders, until another animal stole the show.

Now, instead of looking skyward, they train their close-focus binoculars on the ground. Green darners, blue dashers and dusky dancers spring into view. Their lives, on lazy summer days, become an endless stream of amberwings, spreadwings, pond-hawks and baskettails.

The Solems, who live in Laurel, Md., are part of the latest trend in the nature world: dragonfly-watching.

Once the purview of scientists and specialists, ...

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