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Darner Dragonfly

Aeshnidae

Photo by ChristyKucera
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Field Notes

Description:

Large (4-5in. long) Dragonfly, large blue eyes, body coloring was black with green striping.

Habitat:

Found inside a small cave opening where a mineral spring flowed out. The opening of the cave was very cold, there was lots of salt rock and lime stone, mixed in with red clay.

Notes:

At first we thought this massive guy was dead, but when i reached up to touch it, it moved scaring the begeezies out of me!! I've never seen such a dragonfly anywhere before and I would love to see if anyone could identify it for me? I've looked through several archives and come up with nill.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Gordon Dietzman
It's a gorgeous darner dragonfly, but I don't know what species it might be. Often, not always, but often, the darners require seeing the thorax stripes on the side of the animal. Some require looking at the cerci on the tip of the abdomen. Can be difficult to tell the species. However, I'd recommend this page:http://bugguide.net/node/view/274/bgimage?from=0 as a starting place. We know it is a darner (Aeshnidae).

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PublishedMay 1, 2011

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