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Green Darner

Anax junius

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43.8049, -75.8964

Field Notes

Description:

The Green Darner is one of the largest dragonflies existent: males grow to 76 mm (3.0 in) in length with a wingspan of up to 80 mm (3.1 in)

This is a female it has brown eyes a green thorax and brown to black abdomen...the male has a blue abdomen

Habitat:

ponds, swamps and wet meadows

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Green Darner

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Comments (3)
ceherzog
Oh yeah...so it is...too bad!
JosephSmith
I think that might be glare...they're moving around.
ceherzog
Nice! I think the 2 white dots by the eyes are very curious & interesting.

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Global Dragonflies & Damselflies
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2011

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