#3669 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Large Red Damselfly

🇳🇱 Vuurjuffer ·Pyrrhosoma nymphula

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © rguinness · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © paulf84 · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © frankielee91 · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © frankielee91 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © zachanton · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Владимир Семашко · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Christian Sørensen · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) is a mainly European damselfly, with some populations in Northern Africa and Western Asia.

base stats

NL sightings 918iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 30,109iNaturalist 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

Spotted 918 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #8 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
30,109 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Heinrich Sulzer in 1776 (250 years ago).