Subarctic darner
The subarctic darner is a big dragonfly of cold northern bogs. It lives all around the top of the world, in Europe, northern Asia and North America. Its babies grow up in boggy pools full of floating moss.
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Fun facts
It only lives in peat bogs and moors, where soft sphagnum moss grows.
Its larvae like pools with floating moss, which people call sphagnum soup.
It looks so much like the common hawker that even experts can mix them up.
In the north it lives in the lowlands, but further south it is found only high in the mountains, mostly above 700 metres.
It lives in the Baltic states too, so you might meet one in an Estonian bog.
Most asked questions about Subarctic darner
?Where does the subarctic darner live?
In the north of Europe, Asia and North America, in peat bogs with sphagnum moss. It lives in Estonia too.
?Is the subarctic darner dangerous?
No. Dragonflies have no sting and are harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aeshna subarctica
- Named by
- Walker, 1908
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Aeshnidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Aeshnidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Bog hawker
Where the facts come from
- Aeshna subarctica (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 Quinten Wiegersma. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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