Lake darner
The lake darner is a big dragonfly from Canada and the northern United States. It flies on and on over large lakes, hardly ever stopping. The male is mostly blue, and both males and females have a black line across the face.
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Fun facts
It can be up to 8 centimetres long. In many places it is the biggest darner around.
It was first found in 1866 at Hermit Lake in the White Mountains of New England.
Its black face line helps you tell it apart from its look-alike, the Canada darner.
For many years scientists argued whether it was the same species as a dragonfly from Europe and Siberia. It is not.
It lives from Newfoundland in the east all the way to Alaska in the west.
Most asked questions about Lake darner
?How big is the lake darner?
Up to about 8 centimetres long, a big dragonfly.
?Is the lake darner dangerous?
No. Dragonflies cannot sting or hurt people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aeshna eremita
- Named by
- Scudder, 1866
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Aeshnidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Aeshnidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Aeshna eremita (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 (c) Maurice Raymond, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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