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Variegated Meadowhawk - Sympetrum corruptum



Flight Season

Early Date: March 26    Late Date: October 29
Rare Abundance Scale Abundant
FLIGHT SEASON
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Description

Body has more gray than most of our other meadowhawks. Uncommon statewide around wetlands, ponds, and small lakes. More common in the west.

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 - 54 Counties

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Recorded in These Counties
Appanoose Audubon Black Hawk Boone Buchanan
Buena Vista Butler Carroll Cass Cerro Gordo
Cherokee Clarke Clay Crawford Dallas
Davis Decatur Des Moines Dickinson Emmet
Floyd Fremont Greene Guthrie Hardin
Harrison Howard Ida Jasper Johnson
Kossuth Lucas Lyon Marion Mills
Monroe Muscatine O'Brien Osceola Page
Palo Alto Plymouth Polk Pottawattamie Sac
Scott Sioux Story Tama Van Buren
Warren Webster Winnebago Woodbury