Southern migrant hawker
The southern migrant hawker is a dragonfly with bright blue eyes. The male also has blue marks on its long body. It loves warm places and flies low over ponds full of plants.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It is a migrant, so in good summers it flies further north than usual.
It is the only hawker dragonfly in Europe of its kind where the male stays holding on to the female while she lays her eggs.
Its babies live in the water for about two years before they become dragonflies.
Young adults fly away from the water for a while to eat and grow up before they come back.
Most asked questions about Southern migrant hawker
?Is the southern migrant hawker dangerous?
No. It cannot sting and it does not hurt people.
?When can you see the southern migrant hawker?
The grown-ups fly from May until September.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aeshna affinis
- Named by
- Vander Linden, 1820
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Aeshnidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Aeshnidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Blue-eyed hawker
Where the facts come from
- Aeshna affinis (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 No machine-readable author provided. Rgeerts~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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