#3723 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Common Green Darner

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse keizerlibel ·Anax junius

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The green darner or common green darner ( Anax junius ), after its resemblance to a darning-needle, is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. One of the most common and abundant species throughout North America, it also ranges south to Panama. It is well known for its great migration distance from the northern United States south into Texas and Mexico. It also occurs in the Caribbean, Tahiti, and Asia from Japan to mainland China. It is...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 65,074iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
65,074 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Dru Drury in 1773 (253 years ago).