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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Darners (Aeshnidae)
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Dragonfly unidentified
Copyright © 2016 Carolyn Waddell

Dragonfly unidentified
Three Mile Bay, White Lake, Lanark, Ontario, Canada
October 12, 2016
This second photo taken of the same individual at the same time may be helpful for a species id.

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Dragonfly unidentified Dragonfly unidentified
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Contributed by Carolyn Waddell on 29 November, 2016 - 4:34pm
Last updated 31 July, 2017 - 8:08am

Female Darner....they can be
Female Darner....they can be hard.

Has an awful lot of green on the thorax so I would lean towards Mottled Darner (Aeshna clepsydra) as I am not sure any others would have that much (and I don't have the Algonquin guide with me to check).
… Brenda Van Ryswyk, 7 December, 2016 - 2:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Mottled Darner
The region is correct in both Paulson and the Algonquin Field Guide (AFG). The AFG reports the flight period as July to end of Sept. Given changing weather/climate, the photo being taken Oct 12 isn't far off. AFG says it's rare.
… Carolyn Waddell, 7 December, 2016 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

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