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Widow Skimmer - Libellula luctuosa



Flight Season

Early Date: May 28    Late Date: October 4
Rare Abundance Scale Abundant
FLIGHT SEASON
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Description

Common statewide at wetlands, pools, ponds. lakes, and wet ditches.

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