#3722 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Yellow-winged Darter

🇳🇱 Geelvlekheidelibel ·Sympetrum flaveolum

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Иван Тисленко · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Сергей Миляхин · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Reflectitur Photons · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jere Kahanpää · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Богинский Евгений Иванович · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Tuomo Virtanen · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Alexander Yakovlev · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The yellow-winged darter ( Sympetrum flaveolum ) is a dragonfly found in Europe and mid and northern China. Breeding is confined to stagnant water, usually in peat bogs. Although not resident in the United Kingdom it occasionally migrates there in some numbers. Such 'Invasion Years' occurred in 1906, 1926, 1945, 1953, and 1995. On each occasion a small breeding colony appeared, but they have invariably died out after a few years.

base stats

NL sightings 14iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,167iNaturalist 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).