In October and November, 1999, I spent three weeks collecting damselflies
and true bugs in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia.
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image.
View from the summit of the northern island of Ua Huka.
This island appears to be home to an endemic species of damselfly.
Breakers near our pension (Chez Maurice et Delphine) on Ua Huka.
The sea stack on the right is the same as that seen in the photo at
the left.
Dr. Dan Polhemus collects near a cascade in Taipi Valley.
Dr. Ron Englund collected a rare terrestrial Hydrometridae while canopy
fogging on the summit of Mt. Temetiu, Hiva Oa