Iowa Species Detail

Flight Season

Early Date: July 18    Late Date: October 23

Rare							Abundant
FLIGHT SEASON
JAN				FEB				MAR
APR				MAY				JUN
JUL				AUG				SEP
OCT				NOV				DEC

Description

This late season species is one of our more common darners, sometimes found patrolling open woodlands along streams and small creeks. It seems to be less common in southern Iowa. The thoracic stripes are narrower than other darners and are yellowish. The blue spots on the male abdomen are greatly reduced from other blue darners.

Size

Although some species show a bit of variation in size, the following graphic will give you a general feeling for the normal size of this species.

State Status:  S4      Global Status:  G5

Geographic Distribution - 68 Counties

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Recorded in These Counties
Allamakee	Audubon	Black Hawk	Boone	Bremer
Buchanan	Buena Vista	Butler	Calhoun	Carroll
Cass	Cedar	Cerro Gordo	Cherokee	Chickasaw
Clay	Clayton	Clinton	Crawford	Delaware
Dickinson	Dubuque	Emmet	Fayette	Greene
Grundy	Guthrie	Hamilton	Hardin	Henry
Howard	Ida	Iowa	Jackson	Jasper
Johnson	Jones	Keokuk	Kossuth	Lee
Louisa	Lucas	Lyon	Madison	Marshall
Monroe	Montgomery	Muscatine	O'Brien	Osceola
Palo Alto	Plymouth	Pocahontas	Poweshiek	Sac
Scott	Shelby	Sioux	Story	Tama
Van Buren	Warren	Washington	Webster	Winneshiek
Woodbury	Worth	Wright