Iowa Species Detail

Flight Season

Early Date: March 21    Late Date: November 11

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

Description

A widespread dragonfly often seen patrolling over fields some distance from water. Common Green Darner is a migratory dragonfly, although the ones that go south are not the same ones that come back north in the spring since their life span is much shorter than that. Swarms seen in late summer and early fall are often comprised of this species.

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:  S5      Global Status:  G5

Geographic Distribution - 99 Counties

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Recorded in These Counties
Adair	Adams	Allamakee	Appanoose	Audubon
Benton	Black Hawk	Boone	Bremer	Buchanan
Buena Vista	Butler	Calhoun	Carroll	Cass
Cedar	Cerro Gordo	Cherokee	Chickasaw	Clarke
Clay	Clayton	Clinton	Crawford	Dallas
Davis	Decatur	Delaware	Des Moines	Dickinson
Dubuque	Emmet	Fayette	Floyd	Franklin
Fremont	Greene	Grundy	Guthrie	Hamilton
Hancock	Hardin	Harrison	Henry	Howard
Humboldt	Ida	Iowa	Jackson	Jasper
Jefferson	Johnson	Jones	Keokuk	Kossuth
Lee	Linn	Louisa	Lucas	Lyon
Madison	Mahaska	Marion	Marshall	Mills
Mitchell	Monona	Monroe	Montgomery	Muscatine
O'Brien	Osceola	Page	Palo Alto	Plymouth
Pocahontas	Polk	Pottawattamie	Poweshiek	Ringgold
Sac	Scott	Shelby	Sioux	Story
Tama	Taylor	Union	Van Buren	Wapello
Warren	Washington	Wayne	Webster	Winnebago
Winneshiek	Woodbury	Worth	Wright