Contribution to fauna and dragonfly (Odonata) habitat selection on Dravsko Polje and its surroundings

Med 17. in 28. julijem 2013 je v Račah potekal raziskovalni tabor študentov biologije. Kot večletni ljubiteljski raziskovalec kačjih pastirjev sem se ga udeležil, z namenom, da pod mentorstvom Damjana Vinka izvem še več o teh izredno hitrih žuželkah. Kačji pastirji so plenilske žuželke z nepopolno preobrazbo in večino življenja preživijo v vodi kot ličinke. Na dvainpetdesetih lokalitetah na širšem območju Dravskega polja smo zabeležili 44 različnih vrst odraslih kačjih pastirjev. Iskali in določali pa smo tudi ličinke in olevke. V dvanajstih dneh smo popisali skoraj 3000 odraslih predstavnikov. Podatke smo skrbno zapisovali in na podlagi teh sem kasneje prišel do različnih zaključkov.A research camp of biology students was held in Rače, between 17th and 28th of June 2013. As an amateurish researcher of dragonflies I took part in a research camp under mentorship of Damjan Vinko with an intention of finding out more about these extremely fast insects. Dragonflies are predatory insects with incomplete metamorphosis and spend most of the time in water as larvae. Were noted down forty-four different species of dragonflies on fifty two localities in the area of Dravsko polje. Larvae were also searched and determined. During the duration of a camp we made an inventory of almost 3000 imagos. Data were carefully acquired and at the end came to the diferent conlusions