On 26/02/2008, Colin Adams <colinpauladams@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On 26/02/2008, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> 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.
>

It's hard to be certain, but it looks like Sympetrum Illotum (Cardinal
Meadowhawk).
See http://southwestdragonflies.net/swanisoptera.html#Meadowhawks for pictures.