Norfolk hawker
The Norfolk hawker is a brown dragonfly with bright green eyes and clear wings. On its body, just behind the wings, it has a small yellow triangle. Its green eyes stand out even when it zooms past.
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Fun facts
It is one of only two brown hawker dragonflies in Europe.
The other one, the brown hawker, has yellowish wings and bluish eyes, so they are easy to tell apart.
Its back wings have an amber patch near the body.
In England it likes ponds with a floating plant called water soldier.
In Britain it is rare and lives mainly in Norfolk, which gave it its English name.
Most asked questions about Norfolk hawker
?How can you recognise the Norfolk hawker?
It is brown with green eyes, clear wings and a yellow triangle near the top of its body.
?Where does the Norfolk hawker live?
In central Europe, around the Mediterranean and in North Africa, near ponds and marshes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Isoaeschna isoceles
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Aeshnidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Aeshnidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
- Also known as
- Green-eyed hawker
Where the facts come from
- Aeshna isoceles (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 Christian Fischer. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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