•George and Alice Beatty took seven trips to study the Odonata of Mexico between 1956 and 1971.
•They collected >30,000 specimens.
•They discovered ~20 undescribed species of which they described none.
•They reared many undescribed larvae.
•They published very little on Mexican Odonata.
•In the late 1970’s their entire collection was donated
to the Frost Entomological
Museum at Penn State University.
•George Beatty retained his field notebooks, which effectively prevented work by others on the collection
for 30 years.