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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Darners (Aeshnidae) » Mosaic Darners (Aeshna) » Canada Darner (Aeshna canadensis)
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Aeshna canadensis? - Aeshna canadensis - female
Copyright © 2015 Charley Eiseman

Aeshna canadensis? - Aeshna canadensis - Female
Rene Henderson Preserve, Castine, Hancock County, Maine, USA
August 29, 2014
Ovipositing in sphagnum (no standing water).

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Aeshna canadensis? - Aeshna canadensis - female Aeshna canadensis? - Aeshna canadensis - female
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 3 January, 2015 - 4:29pm
Last updated 11 January, 2015 - 8:44pm

Moved
Moved from Mosaic Darners.
Thanks. I wonder how her offspring fared, hatching out in soggy peat instead of water.
… Charley Eiseman, 11 January, 2015 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

Aeshna canadensis
With the zig-zag anterior lateral stripe and yellow spot behind it this has to be Aeshna canadensis. Apparently this individual had not read the oviposition instructions in the field guide(1). I checked Needham, Westfall, and May(2) and there are no additional species from Maine that could be confused with canadensis.
… John F. Carr, 11 January, 2015 - 8:38pm login or register to post comments

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