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Female Green Darner - Full Body View
A female green darner with a tattered hind right wing resting in some thick grass. I only noticed her because she was rapidly vibrating her wings and it was making a loud humming noise when I was walking by. She flew away after a few photos, so even though her wing looks bad, it wasn't inhibiting her flight at all. Captured in the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge in northern Illinois.
The Green Darner or Common Green Darner, after its resemblance to a darning-needle, is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. One of the most common and abundant species throughout North America and it ranges south to Panama. It is well known for its great migration distance from the northern United States south into Texas and Mexico.
Similar species: Dragonflies And Damselflies
By travismorhardt
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Uploaded May 13, 2014. Captured May 12, 2014 07:38 in Unnamed Road, Thomson, IL 61285, USA.
