According to wikipedia, mosquito-hawk can apply to dragonflies, damselflies or craneflies.
Meadowhawk is much more specific - it is a member of the genus Sympetrum - in England we call these Darters. Sympetrum is part of the family libelludiae - (perchers/skimmmers/darters/chasers are various English names) - the most advanced (and relatively recent - the earliest dragonfly ancestors were 320 million years old) dragonfly family. I have received confirmation from Kathy Briggs - a prolific Californian author of books on dragonflies - but not the BSD variety - that Fred is indeed a Cardinal Meadowhawk (shes says a fairly young male). This confirms that Fred is one of the most technologically sophisticated of all dragonflies - the equivalent of an SIS. Meanwhile, I have managed to install 1.12 in a virtual machine on my Linux 64-bit quad core box. I didn't attempt to configure the network when I did the installation, thinking that as I was running under KVM, I would not need to (that was the case when I set up FreeBSD 6.3 last weekend). However I can't ping 10.0.2.2 (which is the virtual DHCP server that KVM provides to the guest), so I guess I should have done it. But I don't know what command to type to bring up those configuration menus again - I can't find it mentioned in the DragonFly handbook (flight manual?). Please help. On 26/02/2008, B. Estrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:37:58PM +0000, Colin Adams wrote: > > On 26/02/2008, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > :P.S. Can someone tell me the scientific name of the species pictured > > > :in the mascot? > > > > > > I'm afraid I don't know. I took that picture in my garden, in > > > Berkeley, California. > > > > Well, I will find out. It is almost certainly a Darter (Sympetrum) - > > although you Americans call them Meadowhawks. > > > I grew up calling them mosquito-hawks. I know the term "dragonfly" obviously, > but I've never head of the term meadowhawk. > > > B >
