Green-striped darner
The green-striped darner is a big dragonfly from North America. It is about as long as a grown-up's finger and has bright green stripes on the sides of its chest. It looks a lot like its cousin, the Canada darner.
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Fun facts
It is about 7.6 centimetres long.
The stripes on the sides of its chest are all green. That is how you can tell it apart from the Canada darner.
Some of the female's markings can also be green.
There are plenty of them, and scientists say they are not in danger.
Most asked questions about Green-striped darner
?How big is the green-striped darner?
It is about 76 mm long.
?Where does the green-striped darner live?
In the northeastern United States and in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aeshna verticalis
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Aeshnidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Aeshnidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Aeshna verticalis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Dan MacNeal. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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